Intel Losing CPU Market-Share to AMD

[thirdshiftdj]

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.

 

[SparkMonkeyHellion]

Wow, I had heard that AMD was listing to port lately - I guess they picked their game back up.

 

[Hussein19891]

Go AMD

Intel is still on top, I just enjoy having an alternative company to purchase from.

 

[hikaricloud]

The Phenom II series is pretty awesome, it's exciting to see AMD catching up again. The newegg March AMDness helped a lot too, for a month AMD was a killer steal.

 

[gurusan]

Personally, I'm not too impressed with either i7 or Phenom II. I'm eager to see what the refreshes are like. Anyway, it's good to hear AMD have got some of the market share back.