Anusha
01-31-2007, 10:19 PM
Some good news for AMD fans.
The market shares of x86 microprocessors that Advanced Micro Devices has managed to achieve in the whole calendar 2006 and in Q4 are all-time records for the company. However, since AMD no longer has leading-edge performance crown and rival Intel Corp. is ramping up its award-winning Core 2 chips, it has to drop prices on its chips to stay competitive.
Intel Corp. controlled 74.4% of the x86 chip market in Q4 2006, AMD owned 25.3% of the market and the remaining 0.3% were shared between companies like Transmeta Corp. and Via Technologies, the preliminary figures from a study by Mercury Research reveal. For Sunnyvale, California-based chipmaker this is a 2% sequential gain and 3.9% annual increase in market share.
Source: X-bit Labs (http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20070130235437.html)
The market shares of x86 microprocessors that Advanced Micro Devices has managed to achieve in the whole calendar 2006 and in Q4 are all-time records for the company. However, since AMD no longer has leading-edge performance crown and rival Intel Corp. is ramping up its award-winning Core 2 chips, it has to drop prices on its chips to stay competitive.
Intel Corp. controlled 74.4% of the x86 chip market in Q4 2006, AMD owned 25.3% of the market and the remaining 0.3% were shared between companies like Transmeta Corp. and Via Technologies, the preliminary figures from a study by Mercury Research reveal. For Sunnyvale, California-based chipmaker this is a 2% sequential gain and 3.9% annual increase in market share.
Source: X-bit Labs (http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20070130235437.html)