Thursday, April 26th 2012
AMD Gains CPU Market Share at Intel's Expense in Q1
AMD gained CPU market share at Intel's expense in the first-quarter of 2012, according to the latest data by Mercury Research. Intel's CPU market share dropped from 81 percent last quarter, to 80.2 percent, while AMD's rose from 18.2 percent to 19.1 percent. Principal analyst at Mercury Research, Dean McCarron said that AMD benefited from improvements in hard drive supplies. AMD is strong in desktop processors, with 43 percent of the market, the same as last year. Customers also opted for lower-priced laptops, many of which had AMD's chips. Supplies of AMD's A-series chips code-named Llano were restored after manufacturing issues were resolved, McCarron said.
Source:
PCWorld
47 Comments on AMD Gains CPU Market Share at Intel's Expense in Q1
I see what You did there!
In the last few days they were all bashing AMD in the below following threads:
AMD A10-5800K "Trinity" APU Tested
AMD Intros the FX-6200 and FX-4170 Processors, Cuts Some Prices
Trinity Provides Up To 29% Faster Productivity, 56% Faster Visuals Than Llano: AMD
AMD Reports First Quarter Results
As others have said, if anything, this piece of news just shows that the average consumer does not care about Intel's undeniable advantage in x86 performance and efficiency.
Intel should be worried, in five years to a decade or so AMD might be in a position to take their spot, marketshare wise.
BR,
Intell Fanboy
That said, AMD are doing good at what they are doing and that is taking some marketshare in certain segments where they can compete, they're in business and making profit (kind of anyway) so they are succesful as is. Thinking they will overtake Intel is .... well, it's like thinking that Appple could ever overtake the mighty Microsoft :slap: :nutkick: :roll::roll:.... wait...... :confused: Think you'll find the enterprise space is where the most money is and Intel has 70%+
www.techpowerup.com/162419/Worldwide-PC-Microprocessor-Revenues-in-2011-Rise-13.2-Compared-to-2010.html
I'll just highlight:
"In the desktop PC processor segment, Intel earned 73.8%, a gain of 1.7%, AMD earned 26.0%, a loss of 1.6%, and VIA earned 0.2%, a loss of 0.2%."
That was for last year so I don't know what's with 43% desktop share same as last year for AMD.
Maybe I'm wrong or don't understand what's with these numbers.
Where AMD has an opporunity to capture an overall processor majority is in the laptop and mobile market i.e. mobile phones, PDAs tablets, notebooks, games consoles etc. This is where AMD could gain a much larger CPU market if they keep Intel in a stranglehold. I'm not saying AMD will or is going to overtake Intel. But I am saying that AMD has a potential to if they make the right decisions in the next decade or so.
Also its very possible for Apple to overtake Microsoft. Maybe not in the OS market, but in the consumer market in general.
That is what I mean, perhaps I am getting my terms wrong.