Is Intel About to Crush AMD's Resurgence?
The latest market share numbers from the x86 processor space don't paint a bright picture for Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) as it seems to have lost more ground to rival Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD).
According to market research firm Mercury Research, AMD's share of the x86 processor market -- which includes processors used in servers, laptops, and desktops -- increased to 24.6% in the third quarter. That's a sequential jump of 2.1 percentage points. This reading is the second-highest share AMD has ever seen in x86 processors, after the 25.3% share it achieved in the fourth quarter of 2006. It is also worth noting that AMD reached an all-time record market share of 22% in notebook processors.
AMD's latest gains aren't a big surprise. The company had pointed out on its October earnings conference call that it has logged six straight quarters of revenue share growth in the CPU (central processing unit) market. This is bad news for Intel since the company has struggled to stop its market share decline on account of AMD's technological advantage.
Source Fool.com
