AMD Expected to Regain Market Share
Analysts today said that AMD got slaughtered by Intel in the first quarter of the year, but Forbes believes that Llano will help the company to regain market share.
IHS iSuppli said that Intel climbed to a processor market share of 82.6% in Q1 (up 2.0 points from Q1 2010), while AMD dropped to 10.1% from 11.8%.
However, Forbes predicts that AMD's notebook processors are good enough to take share from Intel - the publication's forecasts estimates that the uptick could be up to six points in the notebook market and up to eight points in servers. There may also be gains in the desktop market, but since we know that desktop shipments are declining anyway, those share gains may not matter much.
AMD has fueled high expectations among analysts that its new architecture will generate strong processor shipments. There is now clear pressure for AMD to deliver, even if Intel seems to have fully recovered from its Sandy Bridge hiccup earlier this year.
Agreed! I'd love to see AMD gain some market share. They're unappreciated as is, and I love their chips. No CPU monopolies please!
But in the mean time doesn't AMD have an exceptional net/notebook product in Llano?
for heavens sake we need AMD to be relavate, without them intel will just kill all innovation and just cash checks
They rule smartphone and tablet market.
ARM has multiple suppliers.
And they will soon enter the small and light notebook space as well.
And eventually the fullsize notebooks will see them too.
Agreed! I'd love to see AMD gain some market share. They're unappreciated as is, and I love their chips. No CPU monopolies please!
But in the mean time doesn't AMD have an exceptional net/notebook product in Llano?
It depends on what they're defining as the "processor market". If they're looking strictly at desktop/server/workstation market, I'd have to agree with you as neither IBM or VIA have anything in the workstation or desktop market...and VIA doesn't exist in the server market. If they're looking at the actual processor market....VIA has a rather healthy foothold in the embedded market powering POS (Point of Sales) systems and ATM machines.
The numbers cited are not really 'market share' --- the numbers are 'revenue share'. AMD microprocessor unit sales in the channel were up and, IIRC, their margins were in the 45% range. Intel, of course, has higher margins.
The most pertinent issue for AMD going forward (among many) is to generate more cash from the video side -- hopefully, the 7XXXs will do that.
better deliver AMD.
Funny.. It seems Intel's getting it's ass handed to it in the portable sector. Just like we are waiting for AMD to release something competitive in the desktop department, we are waiting for Intel to release something competitive in the portable department.
Intel's not going to be stealing much market share anytime soon from ARM.
What do you consider to be an activity "of relevance" exactly? You don't need a Sandy Bridge to do spreadsheets or write documents; I would say those are pretty relevant tasks.
What you mean are tasks that are processor intensive. Not many people doing that kind of stuff really.
Dude, better just not feed the trolls.
it would be great as something to tide you over till you got the money for a great gpu, it would be an extra push for when you did, and would allow a crossfire like performance boost without the crossfire/sli premium (motherboard)
And to anyone saying these processors are "weak", most people do not shop around for each and every piece inside of there desktop/laptop. They want something already put together that works well. The Llano series chips meet that demand perfectly, and at a good price point.
When was the last time you individually picked out each piece of your next car purchase? Gear-heads would call that blasphemy, but to normal drivers it makes sense. Take a little perspective!
I agree! I got some last year at 5$ and think I will get some more at 7$.
I think it could even be good for longer term also.