AMD Outsells Intel in Retail Desktops

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Thats only for the week ending Aug 21st. More <A HREF="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/13/2241256&tid=142&tid=118&tid=1" target="_new">here</A>. Intel still leads and has overall market share.

"For the week ending August 21st AMD managed to capture 54% market share among new desktops sold. Intel's share during the week was 45%. While Intel leads the U.S. CPU market with 82.7% market share, folks from AMD are proud to announce this is the second week this year - they also outsold Intel on the desktop market one time in April 2004."

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<b>He who laughs last thinks slowest!</b><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by priyajeet on 09/14/04 09:58 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

"The numbers only reflect desktop computers sold to customers via retail outlets: the figures do not indicate desktop sales to corporate customers, notebook computers as well as servers or workstations."

Wow and I wasted my time looking for that too...

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Wow. I sell computers and hm, it is true that 50/50 sales are split between amd and intel this end of summer.

BTW: the sales of august going into first week in september for computer sales is a massive spike in the retail industry. the only real reason people buy a new computer for their family is for their whining little skank annoying children who NEED a faster comp for school. So, that being said, if AMD pushed out ahead of intel during this time period, it crushed intel by a landslide for the first time that I have been reading.
Notebook sales are still in INtels favor as there does not exist a centrino version for AMD. that being said, really, there isnt a viable option for a serious business or college user besides centrino. You need the huge battery life and small/lightweightness of the centrino vs an oven with a screen.

If amd makes a centrino type, it could ruin intel. Remember, intel losing a % of sales destroys current expected sales volume, people are counting on this corporately and investment wise, amd has nothing to lose not gaining any ground as much as intel does in losing some at all.

They should have not lied about the tualatin and released better/cooler procs such as them is my odd viewpoint about one of the countless underlying factors to stagnation.


I should also note and add:
The major reason for people buying AMD is a damning one. Every salesman that gets the request for:
I WANT A PENTIUM FOUR, WHERE ARE THOSE?
and then the annoying customer finds out that they are above fiddy-cents then asks: GEE THATS A BIT! THATS JUST FOR THE TOWER THING!?? WHAT ABOUT A PACKAGE DEAL GIMEE SOMETHING WITH IT!!
and im like, um. No. you dont get anything else. So i sell them an athlonXP system with 512 ram and 160 gig hd.
Athlon uses more nvidia on board chips, intel uses random intel chips. It is also easier to sell the amd's with on board video on account of the fact that its a name brand, decent company versus some whatever from intel's labs (regardless of actual performance differences)

a64's are hard to sell at first glance. After talking about them, a salesman who is good will discuss how long into the future do they expect to use the machine. When people say, I hope it lasts at least 3 years, I say, well the new OS wont work with intel's 520 or 540 chip. and then they buy the a64's. I run the number one computer/camera's sales deptarment out of 680 Circuit city stores, and we always clean out of a64's before the 520's by a long shot. Xp's come in fast and go out just as fast, Celeron sales are diminishing, who the hell wants a chip from the 90's?
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by el_jefe_77 on 09/14/04 01:50 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

Just out of curiousity, where do those numbers come from?

I'm just your average habitual smiler =D

another outselling article. Suprisingly articles are popping up one after the other !

<A HREF="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18445" target="_new">AMD Opteron outsold Intel Itanium by 10X</A>

No gaurantees that figures are correct.

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Id tell you, AMD is gobbling up that big chunk of market share from Intel and it wont be long for them to take over.

<i><font color=red>Only an overclocker can make a computer into a convectional oven.</i></font color=red>

As far as chips go, the 35 watt xp-m 2400+ could go head to head against any of the PM chips. Just try to find a laptop maker that would go up against the big Intel machine though.

Maybe he was using a little sarcasm. I dont mean to offend. You have had the Amd fanboys on your case for a long time. Now that you have actually tried Amd, the Intel fanboys get in your face. Try to remember, it's not about sides, it's about value/performance. Enjoy your system, and dont let us jealous peons rain on your parade.

u r right, i was being sarcastic there, abt the articles popping up issue.

<A HREF="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2004/tc20040914_3773_tc057.htm" target="_new">Heres</A> another poppup.

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Oh ya forgot that testing software is for stupids... stupid MS.

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atleast they are trying to meet their deadline, dropping WinFS will get longhorn out a bit earlier than it would had they implemented it. Unlike some bitch ass firms(valve), who create virtual deadlines.

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oh yeah definitely, i ll pick up the crowbar if they do that !

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Microsoft has one large competitor - time.

It's been awhile since their last big OS upgrade (namely Win XP). By Microsoft's past timelines, they should have had a new consumer OS out by Christmas of this year. If they drop WINFS they can make 2006 (maybe 2005), otherwise they are looking at 2007 or (more likely) 2008. Even though XP is a great OS, forcing consumers to a new environment to generate more revenue is what MS is best at!

I'm just your average habitual smiler =D

thats why i say just release an updated version of windows xp, which is waht sp2 has been all about. its a huge update for xp, adding many features and fine tuning. granted it doesnt gain ms revenue, but ti gives them more time for longhorn. they will however, get revenue on xp 64bit, so that should hold them till longhorn. i would rather see them wait till winfs was done, otherwise, there isnt much going for longhorn except avalon and a couple other cosmetic changes.

whats evne worse is if they release winfs as part of a service pack, i can just see the update problems now, you thought the problems wiht the sp2 update on xp was bad... or they will just try to suck more money out of the consumer and force every to pay to get it.