AMD’s Market Share Drops to 3-Year Low amid Intel’s Share Hitting 3-Year High

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Mercury Research, a market tracking company, has released its findings for Q3 2008, according to which Intel’s market increased to rather unprecedented, at least in the recent years, 81.2%, whereas shares of AMD and Via Technologies dropped to 17.7% and 1.1%, respectively. It was Q3 2005 when commanded 17.7% of the market of central processing units (CPUs), whereas Intel’s market share was 80.8%.

It is important to note that Q3 2008 was the first quarter when shipments of microprocessors for mobile applications exceeded shipments of desktop CPUs. This may be partly explained with the substantial increase in netbook popularity and increase in shipments of microprocessors aimed at ultra low-cost personal computers (ULCPCs), such as Intel Atom or Intel Celeron M. However, the main problem for AMD, which lost 1% of the market, is relatively narrow mobile products family.

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