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
nvidia can't sell me a gtx 480 no matter what. as I don't think it's a good product.:)
but i have to say that i really like amd's graphic cards:) as they are better then nvidia's
On topic; It's a bit saddening that AMD is slipping even further. I hope things turn around for them soon and they return back to the glory days. The Athlon XP was my first AMD processor, before that I used mainly Intel ( usually a heavily OCed celeron :D ) Sometimes I look back and try to remember how things were back then, and I always arrive to the same question - were the Athlons really that much better or was the P4 just shitty...whatever the truth I don't regret my first amd system, which is currently alive and kicking as my folks internet box.
again sad to see amd slip but in the grand scheme of these .6% is a worthless statistic which has no real bearing on what ill purchase ;) as long as amd makes cpus and intel makes cpus ill buy what i can afford when i can afford it when i need it :toast:
AMD needs to have the king of the hill processor to make name. only with name, they can make money.. ATI proved that with 4870x2 and 5970 :)
i can understand that they are offering price/performance.
but they should also have a answer the top model from intel even if the price is high.
at least buyer will have the feel that the company is competitive. but now, it looks like AMD is not good when they compare Intel.
if you compare Intel x6 980.. the Phenom x6 are no way near it :( and all the reviews compare phenom x6 with the intel x6 x2 = 12. but thats OK... its AMDs mistake not having some good technology to counter HT from Intel. and by the time bulldozer is out. it will be all rusted.. :banghead:
Bring out bulldozer. Make us happy
in its day the q9550 was a damn good cpu today its price is baffeling costing the same for the cpu as an i7 920/930 and nearly 2 x the price of a 945/955 from amd sometimes intel dosent make sense either but again marketing plays to there rythum and they keep making money :toast:
What are they going to make a commercial of there processor for people to see only to be hit back by a Intel commercial claiming that they are faster anway.
Kinda like this AT&T vs Verizon thing, except one actually isn't lying.
Seriously, I think their position would be much better if they put serious effort into marketing (namely, TV ads). You don't need the best product in the world to have an effective ad campaign. I can't name the last time I saw an Intel ad brag about their performance. They're just clever and show what the company has accomplished (like the one about USB: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqLPHrCQr2I ). Ads like that embed the brand into viewer's minds. Brand recognition sells products, no matter how good or bad they are.
AMD could easily make an ad about combining the power of AMD processors, AMD chipsets, and AMD graphics cards.
It's a shame that the numbers show AMD loosing, here in my country i think the market it's REALLY different, money do count here, a lot and AMD being even a few dollars cheaper makes a LOT of difference.
Without advertising of the brand, AMD will not gain much in the way of market share.
I just can't bring myself to read a giant wall of text like that.