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AMD steals market share from Intel as Atom shipments plummet

by Scott Bicheno on 12 May 2009, 14:45

Tags: Intel (NASDAQ:INTC), AMD (NYSE:AMD), IDC

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The latest IDC figures show the worldwide CPU market was still in decline last quarter but that the decline appears to be slowing. The most remarkable development, however, was AMD grabbing 4.6 percent of market share from Intel.

In Q4 of 2008 Intel had 81.9 percent of the overall PC microprocessor unit market share, with AMD accounting for 17.7 percent. In the space of a quarter these figures has switched to 77.3 and 22.3 percent respectively.

For the purposes of this report, ‘PC microprocessors' includes server and Intel Atom CPUs, but not RISC or embedded ones. Total unit shipments declined by nearly 11 percent compared to the previous quarter, but previous sequential decline was 17 percent.

That, combined with the fact that some decline from Q4 to Q1 is expected, led IDC to predict that the bottom of the market is in sight, although it still predicts a modest sequential decline in Q2.

"The PC processor market continued to reflect significant decline in end demand for most of 1Q09," said Shane Rau, director of semiconductors: PC research at IDC. "However, some inventory replenishment by OEMs at the end of the quarter helped to slow the decline and bring the quarter in at a level only slightly worse than typical seasonal decline."

 

Worldwide Overall PC Microprocessor Unit Market Share by Vendor, 1Q08-1Q09, 2007-2008

 

1Q08

2Q08

3Q08

4Q08

1Q09

 

2007

2008

Intel

78.9%

79.7%

80.8%

81.9%

77.3%

 

77.5%

80.3%

AMD

20.9%

19.7%

18.5%

17.7%

22.3%

 

22.3%

19.2%

VIA Technologies

0.2%

0.5%

0.6%

0.4%

0.4%

 

0.3%

0.4%

Total

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

 

100.0%

100.0%