AMD gains ground on Intel
Sales rise at Chipzilla's expense
AMD HAS GAINED some ground on Chipzilla during the first quarter of this year, according market reshirkers Isuppli.
The Isuppli report shows that AMD's share of global microprocessor market revenue in the first quarter rose by 2.2 per cent compared to the same time last year. It now holds 13 per cent of the market.
Chipzilla saw its sales fall by 0.7 per cent and the outfit has 79.7 per cent share of the market. Nothing that would give Intel executives too much of a panicattack, but it could be indicative of how successful AMD's stronger PC microprocessor product portfolio has become.
Matthew Wilkins, principal analyst at Isuppli, said that AMD had started doing well on the desktop.
Any news of market growth would be welcome to AMD, which has been suffering financially and restructuring its way out of debt recently. µ
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Intel does it again
If you are a cheap geek like me, you will do well to avoid buying 45 nm boxed Intel CPU. The mounting in the coolers has been improved cost-wise, and will now break with a little extra force. See a picture of the new (also broken) cooler next to an older (for 65 nm CPU) one athttp://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh35/tanga6/DSCN1349.jpg
I hope AMD does not follow Intel in this case.
Moving towards the green
I'll believe it when they hold said gained ground for 12 months.As always, half the story
You quote the year on year comparisons... but as usual you cherrypick the data to get your story.AMD share is DOWN from Q4'07 to Q1'08 (funny no mention of that?)
The Q1'07 #'s were, if you talk to many analysts, artificially low. AMD stuffed the channel in Q4'06 to get the financial #'s up and look good for private equity and they dropped much more than normal in Q1'07 (as the channel was stuffed). So now you are using an artifically low # to compare to, which makes this year's quarter look (relatively) good.
2 points does not equal a trend, especially when one of the points, Q1'07, you are using is rather questionable.
Good SELECTIVE reporting! Keep up the good fight!
good for them
Now for AMD to get 45nm on track and done right. That should help them gain even more market share, and given the tidbits about considerable IPC improvements for the upcoming core. Things are looking good for AMD. All this keeping in mind AMD still doesnt have to beat Intel for the performance crown they just need to play the same game as they have done with the new ATI 4000 series cards, the best Bang for the buckers.And if by some miracle they do beat intel for outright performance, AMD will be in threatening form in terms of market share.
PS: And by the way, drashek is a pedophile.
Where are you hiding douche bag.
no suprises
I'm not suprised... AMD still has a good platform even if it's 65nm process has been a disaster. The 48xx have been mopping up the benchmarketing tough, we may see AMD sort out it's crappy CPU process... eventually. Otherwise, the minor details are better on the AMD platform... xfire scales well, lower power chipsets and outrageously good memory bandwidth... the only problem is the CPUs suck... but mark my words, Intel will not be fixing it's crappy stock HSF retention method with nehlahem.. fools... I'm a CPU agnostic, have both... intel must be doing something wrong to let market share slip?Somehow my 140w TDP phenom rig has lower CPU temps than my 90w Core 2 quad.... go fig...
otleini
I can picture otelini nowwhat is it smithers, ahh mr burns, i suppli just reported we lost some market share to amd.
mr burns "dohhhh and I was going to buy that ivory back scratcher"
Not even half the story
Not only does this selectively fail to report that year-over-year share is actually *down*, it even more importantly neglects to mention that, even on this cherry picked single data point, AMD is only up in *unit* share -- their dollar share is down over all relevant time windows.In short, AMD has too much fab capacity and can do nothing but drive its prices lower to sell chips that no one wants above the ultra-low-end