Intel may be the unthreatened leaders of the processor industry, in terms of performance at least, but as you perhaps know those who buy the very high-end products are relatively few. AMD isn’t even competing with Intel in the extreme high-end segment but instead tries for price/performance where AMD’s new Phenom II family is competing. And apparently doing it well as the sales are up for AMD.
After losing ground to Intel during three of four quarters of last year, it gained on Intel during the first quarter 2009. It went from a market share of 10.5% in Q4 2008 to a market share of 12.8 percent during Q1 2009. An increase of 2.3 percentages, while Intel dropped 2.5 percentages.
“AMD increased its allocation of global microprocessor revenue due to strong performances in each area of its microprocessor portfolio, particularly in its Notebook products. This was an impressive feat given the economic downturn and the weakness in the PC and server markets, which caused global microprocessor revenue in the first quarter to decline by 20.6 percent to $6.9 billion, down from $8.6 billion during the same period in 2008.” – iSuppli
Intel owned 81.5 percent of the processor market at last year’s end, but after the first quarter 2009 it had dropped down to 79.1 percent.
The numbers have been shared by analysts at iSuppli and covers the entire microprocessor market, which means that also RISC CPU and other architectures are included.
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