Intel still on top
As concluded by IDC researchers, the second quarter of this year was one of contrasts for the microprocessor market as, despite an unexpected sequential increase in shipment (of 3.1%), the overall revenue declined by 4.5% and settled at $7.7 billion, mostly due to vendor price competition. In this black and white quarter Intel continued to gain market share and went up 0.9% to reach 79.7% while AMD went down 1.2% and topped 19.7%.
The biggest plus for Intel in Q2 came from the mobile CPU segment where it increased its market share to 86.5% while AMD's 'big win' came from the server/workstation market, where it actually managed to take away 0.8% from its larger rival and reach a share of 13.8%. In all, the CPU battle is heating up although we'll probably have to wait until Q4 2008 or Q1 2009 before we see some extreme "friendly competition."
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