Market News
AMD loses CPU market share to Intel
Friday, 30 April. 2010
The figures come from technology market analysis firm IDC, and show that AMD’s share of the overall CPU market now sits at 18.8 percent, compared with 22.3 percent in the same period of 2009. Meanwhile, Intel’s share has climbed from 77.3 percent to 81.08 percent in the same period.AMD’s market share dropped in all of the categories – desktop, mobile and server – but took the biggest kicking the mobile segment.
In this sector, AMD’s market share fell from 15 percent in the first quarter of 2009, to 12.1 percent in the same period of 2010. By comparison, Intel’s share rose from 84.3 percent to 87.8 percent in the same timeframe.AMD hasn’t had an easy time in the mobile CPU market recently, particularly as it doesn’t have an immediate competitor to Intel’s Atom CPU. Then again, VIA has developed its own netbook CPU (the Nano), but VIA also saw its mobile CPU market share drop from 0.7 percent to just 0.1 percent in the same timeframe.