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Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) gained some ground on rival Intel in the lucrative microprocessor market during the first quarter, market research iSuppli said late Tuesday.
AMD's share of global microprocessor market revenue in the first quarter rose by 2.2 percentage points compared to the same time last year to 13%, iSuppli said. Meanwhile, Intel's microprocessor sales dropped by 0.7 percentage points to a 79.7% share of the market.
The figures show that AMD is growing its market share at the expense of Intel, iSuppli said.
"AMD's PC microprocessor product portfolio has become much stronger during the last year, particularly on the desktop side," said Matthew Wilkins, principal analyst and iSuppli, in a report.
The market research company also noted that microprocessor prices appear to have stabilized, a sign that price wars between AMD and Intel have abated.
A portion of AMD's first quarter market share increase came from smaller microprocessor suppliers, iSuppli said. The report results included all kinds of microprocessors, not just the x86 processors AMD and Intel make for computers.
In fact, Intel and AMD accounted for 92.7% of total microprocessor revenue in the first quarter, up 1.4 percentage points from the same time last year, iSuppli reported.
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Intel ADMITS their processors were inferior compared to AMD!!!By M. Coleman on July 7, 2008, 1:31 amI just read some very interesting information where Intel ADMITS that their technology has been *behind* AMD's processor for the last 5 years (remember, AMD introduced...
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Intel ADMITS their processors were inferior compared to AMD!!!By M. Coleman on July 7, 2008, 12:58 amI just read some very interesting information where Intel ADMITS that their technology has been *behind* AMD's processor for the last 5 years (remember, AMD introduced...
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AMD gained market share? When?By M.Coleman on July 4, 2008, 1:39 amLike previously mentioned before, AMD has only recently, in the last 2 years, begun to fall behind Intel. However, the TRUTH of the matter is that even when AMD...
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Let me tell you somethingBy John12908 on July 3, 2008, 5:54 amSounds pretty clear you're neither and AMD nor an Intel shareholder. If AMD were beating Intel on price/performance they wouldn't need 6 months in red to keep up...
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AMD continues to keep Intel on its toes...By M.Coleman on July 3, 2008, 4:37 amAnyone that knows the WHOLE story between Intel and AMD is that Intel was FAR BEHIND the game for almost 8 years (1999-2007). Some points that I would like to make: -...
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