Silicon giant Intel certainly has the upper hand in the current chip market, with its market share rising to over 80% for the first time since Q3 2005. Back in Q4 2006, AMD was enjoying a market share of 15.7% according to market watcher iSuppli, with Intel on 75.7%. However, the latest figures show that these statistics have now changed to 11.1% and 80.2% respectively, quite a noticeable drop for AMD. Intel has been gradually clawing back the market share it lost to AMD ever since the release of the Core 2 Duo processors, with AMD's market share peaking at 16.7% in Q3 2006. AMD will be hoping for improved sales later this year when it releases its new desktop and server CPUs.