AMD gains Market Share

[DoubleZero]

Despite an onslaught of price cuts and new products from the competition, Advanced Micro Devices was able to gain market share against Intel in the second quarter of 2006.
According to data released from Mercury Research, AMD's market share was able to increase slightly, despite PC processors shipments decreasing by 7 percent quarter-over-quarter. AMD's unit shipment increased to 22 percent, and the revenue share increased to 18 percent - at the expense of Intel.


http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20060727/intel-amd-marketshare.htm

[uOpt]

"Opteron X2". Right...

[nn_step]

Lets be honest they don't seem to know much about "tech speak"

[cky2k6]

wait a second, intel has 73, amd has 22, who has the other 5%? please dont tell me via...

[WeStSiDePLaYa]

wait a second, intel has 73, amd has 22, who has the other 5%? please dont tell me via...


IBM?

[uOpt]

Also, "an onslaught of price cuts and new products from the competition" didn't happen in Q2, at least not the new products.

[PetNorth]

a 33% of the whole server marketshare is really impressive, specially keeping in mind they had basically 0% before Opteron, so they have obtained it in only three years :woot:

[generics_user]

a 33% of the whole server marketshare is really impressive, specially keeping in mind they had basically 0% before Opteron, so they have obtained it in only three years :woot:
they also desided to build 3 fabs in that time (ok 2 build 1 reequip) and buy up ati:D .
i never believed the wc or conroe hurt amd that much as they can start to pull down intels sales and clean out the stock by cutting prices in favor of low power brisbanes and upcoming K8L and won´t sit around on old processors that no one wants:p: when K8l is out there

PS:you know out there who is NOW going to buy pentium extrem editions, 9xx or 8xx cpu´s with conroes and dirt cheap atholns out there?:confused: )

[uOpt]

a 33% of the whole server marketshare is really impressive, specially keeping in mind they had basically 0% before Opteron, so they have obtained it in only three years :woot:

And it is safe to say that it got Intel to get its collective behind off the ground and make a new universally useful CPU.

If it wasn't for the AMD64 line of CPUs us programmers would have to tangle with Intel's crazy Pentium-4 optimization manual until the end of time instead of using AMD64 and Core2 which seem to be happy with reasonably normal code.

And for 64 bits we would use Itanium, curse the three compilers for two languages we have and make performance even worse for all other languages.

In a way AMD managed to beat reality back into Intel. Programmers are at least as overloaded as chip designers, and there is just no excuse wasting programmer time by simplifying chip design given how many programmers there are and how few chip designers.

[cky2k6]

IBM?
ibm doesnt make x86 processors...

[generics_user]

ibm doesnt make x86 processors...
it´s about PC processors, not x86 processors.

so it´s IBM, SUN and VIA who share the rest of the market:rolleyes:

[cky2k6]

they do not count non-x86 processors, this research group only posts x86 marketshare if you do some research. dont roll your eyes, gives a chance for people to nail you in the face.

[generics_user]

they do not count non-x86 processors, this research group only posts x86 marketshare if you do some research. dont roll your eyes, gives a chance for people to nail you in the face.
oh i´m sorry but i didn´t find anything that says "x86", maybe you give me a linky or a quote from the site?

[cky2k6]

they never said x86 in the article, which is strange i gotta say, but they have never stated the percentages of the overalll market ever, i've been looking for those figures for years. here is an article reporting q4 from the same research group, http://news.com.com/AMD+once+again+hits+the+roaring+20s/2100-1006_3-6030509.html
and it is x86. the only possible explanation is china, but i dont know how far theyve gotten with their chips. in 2008 theyre supposed to overcome amd...

[situman]

The lightbulb shines the brightest before it burns out. Price cuts can help AMD maintain or slow the bleeding of market share, but bottom line will suffer. Market share will be highly touted by AMD for a while. At the same time they will use their market share and their acquisition of ATI as a smoke screen for their bloody red bottom line for unsuspecting investors. I don't see how AMD can maintain profitability while cutting the prices of their chips by half especially since chips produced by Charter will be even less profitable (Charter isn't going to make chips for free). If they still are in the blacks in the next qtr or two, can we say AMD has been milking us for cheaply produced CPUs?

[cky2k6]

i think amd has been milking the channel, but gave very enticing offers to oems. amd has built up a very impressive base of systems that are s939, and so all those customers now have a chance to upgrade their systems for a lot cheaper. so, yes, with this influx of buyers amd will have stemming from their price cuts will hide their inability to perform. count in a few bozos who will still buy an fx, afterall people did buy extreme editions, and amd will not loose too much weight at all. they will regain their form by 2007, so in the end they'll be back and not even having lost that much.

[keiths]

Milking you guys perhaps, but I refused to buy their chips at their new high prices. What's annoying are the fools who defend getting reamed pricewise; yammering nonsense about how they are making it possible for cheap chips for the pleabs aka trickle down economics, the opposite of supply and demand. The PR guys who conned them into believing that deserve a bonus. If they hadn't been buying at high prices, supply and demand would work to the consumers favor. The rubes just helped push up and keep prices high.

[situman]

i think amd has been milking the channel, but gave very enticing offers to oems. amd has built up a very impressive base of systems that are s939, and so all those customers now have a chance to upgrade their systems for a lot cheaper. so, yes, with this influx of buyers amd will have stemming from their price cuts will hide their inability to perform. count in a few bozos who will still buy an fx, afterall people did buy extreme editions, and amd will not loose too much weight at all. they will regain their form by 2007, so in the end they'll be back and not even having lost that much.

I really don't see how a high 939 user base will help AMD. Afterall, the only component that can be carried over is the vidcard if the user decides to upgrade. When he/she does decide to upgrade, it will probably be a Conroe or whichever is the best performing system at the time. Only diehard AMDroids will stick with AMD without considering the other options. Sure htey can go for a really cheap AM2 system, but a cheap Conroe once overclocked can overtake any stock or overclocked AM2 system. Bad time to spend all ur pennies AMD.

[generics_user]

they never said x86 in the article, which is strange i gotta say, but they have never stated the percentages of the overalll market ever, i've been looking for those figures for years. here is an article reporting q4 from the same research group, http://news.com.com/AMD+once+again+hits+the+roaring+20s/2100-1006_3-6030509.html
and it is x86. the only possible explanation is china, but i dont know how far theyve gotten with their chips. in 2008 theyre supposed to overcome amd...
must be sun and via:confused:

[generics_user]

I really don't see how a high 939 user base will help AMD. Afterall, the only component that can be carried over is the vidcard if the user decides to upgrade. When he/she does decide to upgrade, it will probably be a Conroe or whichever is the best performing system at the time. Only diehard AMDroids will stick with AMD without considering the other options. Sure htey can go for a really cheap AM2 system, but a cheap Conroe once overclocked can overtake any stock or overclocked AM2 system. Bad time to spend all ur pennies AMD.
he talks about the 939-cpus who got the SAME price-cuts as am2 and still perform very good, so you have the chance to get an 120$ dual-core for cheap and throw out your venice;)
this time also is the best chance for amd to clear the stocks: large userbase as cky2k6 said so they can sell there last cpus for cheap and REALLY get rid of them till revG and K8L arrive in december/mid2007 while intel is still sitting around on tons of old netburst cpus which are now MUCH heavier to sell with amd cutting its prices and C2Ds around, i think that it will take intel over a year to get rid of all major stocks...