A Mercury Research report released earlier this week showed Intel's market share for Q1 2006 declined a seemingly impossible 69%, with ATI picking up the lion's share of that loss. While Mercury cited Intel's factory transition from 130 nm to 90 nm as the cause for this rather massive hiccup, other analysts have pointed to more qualitative concerns, especially with Intel's lower-price, mainstream chipsets.
A Mercury Research report released earlier this week showed Intel's market share for Q1 2006 declined a seemingly impossible 69%, with ATI picking up the lion's share of that loss. While Mercury cited Intel's factory transition from 130 nm to 90 nm as the cause for this rather massive hiccup, other analysts have pointed to more qualitative concerns, especially with Intel's lower-price, mainstream chipsets.
Just checking. It looks like they are talking chipsets where I guess ATI is kicking butt and taking names. I had assumed they were talking CPUs and that they ment AMD not ATI. My bad.
Yes they were talking about chipsets. Intel contracted ATI to fill the void as they transitioned the factories, hence the Market Segment share change. It is temporary, as discussed in the article you linked.
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