Wednesday, April 1st 2009
Intel Losing CPU Market-Share to AMD
With the introduction of the K8 architecture, years ago, AMD found inroads into significantly rising in market-share for CPUs, at the expense of Intel. That growth ceased with Intel's introduction of the competing Core microarchitecture, following which, AMD was pushed into some deep financial trouble. Eventually the company spun-off its manufacturing division to form the Globalfoundries with investment from Advanced Technology Investment Company, recently.
With the introduction of the 45 nm Phenom II series of processors however, sharp growths in demand for AMD have been observed, with Phenom II X3 700 series triple-core, and the Phenom II X4 920 quad-core desktop processors. The surge in demand is caused due to recent price-cuts by the company. Motherboard vendors forecast the overall global market-share for AMD desktop processors to go up by 30 percent in Q2, 2009. With a conservative-estimate of its current market share to be around 20 percent, the growth would send the figure to 26 percent. The company plans to further expand its desktop CPU lineup with the introduction of an entry-level desktop platform before September.
Source:
DigiTimes
With the introduction of the 45 nm Phenom II series of processors however, sharp growths in demand for AMD have been observed, with Phenom II X3 700 series triple-core, and the Phenom II X4 920 quad-core desktop processors. The surge in demand is caused due to recent price-cuts by the company. Motherboard vendors forecast the overall global market-share for AMD desktop processors to go up by 30 percent in Q2, 2009. With a conservative-estimate of its current market share to be around 20 percent, the growth would send the figure to 26 percent. The company plans to further expand its desktop CPU lineup with the introduction of an entry-level desktop platform before September.
115 Comments on Intel Losing CPU Market-Share to AMD
Either way..good to see AMD doing well, not only because they need to but it keeps Intel in check too....more competition = better prices/products for us. :)
AMD may be miles behind Core i7 in terms of performance but the majority of buyers aren't in the market for $1500+ computers. AMD needs to watch out for Core i5 and the subsequent reductions in prices across Core 2 parts, however.
AMD will have a whole new architecture in 2011 so I think Phenom II's and success of radeon hd series has given them a little breathing room.
Do you encode movies? Core 7
Encode and play games : core 7.
Casual use: PHII
Gaming : PHII / Core 7.
and then there is the money.
Core 2 series are outdated, wont come new cpu's to the platform, soo, that leaves AM2 and AM3 a good platform.
Many users with AM2 boards from 2005 2006, can actually snatch up on theese cpu's and put them in, yeah AM3 ones too, so you can use AM3 cpu's on Nforce 3 chipset :D
Core7 is faster, but for what price. its faster at numbercrunching and encode stuff. gaming too, but not by much.
Use the money on a GTX295 or 4870x2. or just a normal gfx, or a 2nd one. like i did :D
Core i7 is more than enough for any modern game (and then some).
But Phenom II still has nothing over Core i7. Anyone with the money is advised to buy Core i7.
That being said, it's nice to see AMD getting some competition in, even if it's not on the highest tier.
Hopefully Intel won't be able to produce and ship Core i5 quick enough, and have to drop prices on i7.
I wonder Core i5 can takeover C2Q's territory
It is really nice to have AMD back, and I hope they continue to improve and increase market share.
Still, the PII prices are amazing, not only tempting, but a good deal for anyone, primarily gamers, when that extra $120 you didnt spend on core architecture goes towards bumping you up from a HD4830 to an HD4890. Lets see....which would perform better on games? i7 + 4830 or pII + 4890?
I own core architecture, /notafanboy.
But, what kind of a person interested in performance leaps would buy a 940 when he already has a Q9550? The performance leap that made wind in the past two years was the transition from 2 cores to 4 cores, and even 8 threads. I really don't trust your definition of smooth, no offense, of course.
Sometimes I have to remind people that this is TechPowerUp! and that if you keep your hardware past 3-5 months, you are a DULLARD! YES! I SAID IT!:laugh:
amd is a good choice i mean okay phenom 1 was balls but that x2 5000+ BE i had was actually okay if only it had more cache
that is the saving grace of the core 2s i mean large cache and fast speeds, the fsb was holding it back tho
the x3 720be is already £99 combine that with a £100 motherboard that is a cheap upgrade for some people, also amd could make a killing in the OEM sector of the market coz these are great for offices that would benefit with having an ATI IGP instead of intels crap, and the low cost but im saying like they do AM2+ they get some cheap 2gb of ram and a 80gb hard drive, a dvd drive is like £10 now for a basic thing, you combine that with a quad or dual or tri core and a cheap under £50 mATX with IGP and that is a good office pc
this is like back in the day everyone wanted Durons because they were cool, more recently the q6600 was a killer cpu now it seems to be the x3 720BE