Intel Drops CPU Market Share, AMD Catches Up
Intel Drops CPU Market Share, AMD Catches Up
Posted 06/11/2009 at 7:00am
| by Paul Lilly
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Just as motherboard sales have fallen because of the recession, so too has CPU sales, and it's finally caught up with Intel. According to new data from iSuppli, Intel's four-quarter growth streak has come to an end with the No. 1 chip maker seeing a decline in both sales and market share, much to the delight of AMD.
"After losing share to Intel on a sequential basis during three out of four quarters in 2008, AMD managed to reverse the trend in the first quarter of 2009," said Matthew Wilkins from iSuppli. "AMD increased its allocation of global microprocessor revenue due to strong performances in each area of its microprocessor portfolio, particularly in its notebook products."
Intel's market share fell by two and a half points for Q4 2008 while its shares of the global processor revenue inched backwards from 81.6 percent to 79.1 percent. Nearly all of it went to AMD, whose market share grew by 2.3 points.
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Bless
June 12, 2009 at 12:15am
Intel needs to drop their prices. it's just too expensive in a time like this, especially the i7.
I hope they read this.
almax
June 11, 2009 at 7:53am
"Intel saw its market share dropped by 2.5 points ..... to 79.1% from 81.6%. AMD grew its market share by 2.3 points to 12.8%."
AMD is as much of a threat to INTEL as Linux is to Microsoft.
gatorXXX
June 11, 2009 at 10:35am
Your point is?.... All that matters is that Intel dropped and AMD gained. Nuff said!
almax
June 11, 2009 at 11:45am
Just like Linux, AMD has had since 1991 to "catch up" and a short term 2.3 increase is meaningless at this point.
gatorXXX
June 11, 2009 at 12:34pm
I didn't resort to name calling. Just goes to show how immature you are.
WarCrime342
June 11, 2009 at 12:03pm
If you think about it in consumerist terms, people aren't buying Intel products as much as they used to. Instead during this recession, more people are likely to buy AMD budget chips which will raise AMD's share.
2.3 measly points isn't something to get excited about, but when and if you see AMD producing more chips that has a better "bang-for-the-buck" than Intel, then it'll be a threat. Until then AMD has still got quite a ways to "catch up", but for a company that only controls a 5th of the market, they are competing very well with Intel.
nekollx
June 11, 2009 at 12:13pm
...that only controls a 5th of the market...
Now here the statment is a bit inacurate. They have 1/5 market SHARE but CONTROL id say more like 40% of the actual market producing CPUS
Intel no doubti has like a 50-56% control while Nano, Ion, etc making up a control of like 4-10%
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Caboose
June 11, 2009 at 1:16pm
I'm proud to say that I'm part of that 40% marketshare as 99% of PC's in my apartment run AMD CPU's and have ATI graphics!
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
Mr.Pooney
June 11, 2009 at 6:52am
I'd give it to amd with its phenom II
not everyone is a hardcore gamer with a big bankrole
in my area the 2 don't go hand in hand
so when some one come to me to build a Pc and says i wanna game
with a budget of 1200-1500$ (thats CND$ eh!)
i dont recomend Core i7 and i dont recomend C2D anymore
ive gone back to AMD
and also i agree with PCIV
If someone comes in looking for a laptop for school + a lil sims 3 i recomend AMD with ATI grafix
it just does a better job!
Intel C2D E7200
ASUS P5K/EPU MoBo
BFG 8800 GT OC2 Video Card
4GB Kingston HyperX 1066 DDR2 Ram
5 W.D 500GB HD
2 LG G22N 20x DVD±RW DL
CoolerMaster 650Watt PS
PCIV
June 11, 2009 at 6:46am
Well, for notebooks, I blame the Intel graphics card. I, being a geek (I'm here, aren't I?), tell people to get AMD for laptops just because it can't come with Intel's graphics. Apprantely, others are doing the same.
nekollx
June 11, 2009 at 7:58am
I think it has more o do with Intell pissing on
Mother Board MAnufacturers
Nvidea
And God
They threw their weight around and got slapped in their fat ass when they started to piss off their vendors enmasse
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