Thursday, April 29th 2010
PC Processor Market and Intel Grow, AMD Slips
The Intel juggernaut rolls on in Q1 2010, according the latest IDC report covering PC processor sales. Similar to the GPU market, processor sales grew by 39% compared to this time last year (Q1 2009), but declined by 5.6% compared to Q4 2009. Revenues went up 40.4% year-on-year and down just 2% sequentially. Intel's market share grew by 0.5%, slightly at the expense of AMD, which went down 0.6%.
Intel holds 81% of the processor market, while 'rival' AMD holds 18.8%. VIA holds a tiny 0.2% of the market. In the x86 server market, Intel holds 90.2%, with AMD and others at 9.8%. With the notebook and desktop segments it reached 87.8% and 71.7%, respectively. For 2010 IDC is predicting a CPU unit growth of 15.1%. Q1 2010 saw Intel propagating processors based on its new architecture to the crucial value and mainstream market segments, with the Core i3, Core i5, and Pentium dual-core processors in the LGA-1156 package.
Source:
TechConnect Magazine
Intel holds 81% of the processor market, while 'rival' AMD holds 18.8%. VIA holds a tiny 0.2% of the market. In the x86 server market, Intel holds 90.2%, with AMD and others at 9.8%. With the notebook and desktop segments it reached 87.8% and 71.7%, respectively. For 2010 IDC is predicting a CPU unit growth of 15.1%. Q1 2010 saw Intel propagating processors based on its new architecture to the crucial value and mainstream market segments, with the Core i3, Core i5, and Pentium dual-core processors in the LGA-1156 package.
77 Comments on PC Processor Market and Intel Grow, AMD Slips
AMD might need to advertise more. As bad as this sounds, a campaign about how the price per perf ratio is better than Intel would do wonders I bet.
It's appropriate to say MacOSX is a "rival" to Windows, but AMD is definitely a rival to Intel.
Better luck next quarter !
now that thats all over - a lot of manufacturers have been pretty keen about picking up AMD processors - especially since intel has temporarily stopped manufacturing ULV style processors for netbooks, theres a gap in the market for AMD to get into even if its just for a short period of time. Ive already seen some ACER, Samsung & Dell netbooks running AMD processors.
needless to say its still going to be a bit of a long rough ride for AMD. but at least on the GPU front they doing exceptionally well.
but yes intels cpu's do dominate the office sector and colleges and whatnot.
AMD doesn't even really have the capacity to meet a larger market. That's why they lost out in the first place...they couldn't get enough chips out the door. Then Core2 came, and everyone forgot about them, as they were slow, and couldn't meet demand anyway. AMD then said they'd try to meet that demand, but were dropping the enthusiast. Enter Phenom1.
Since then, AMD hasn't really increased thier capacity very much, so I expect very little from them. MAybe the third quarter this year will improve for them...I'll be watching the market closely to see what happens.