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CPU sales for Intel, AMD soar in third quarter
MARKET RESEARCH firm IDC released figures which said worldwide CPU sales flew out of the door as fast as horse dung off a hot shovel.
CPU sales grew by 14.3 per cent in the third quarter, worth a staggering $7.95 billion.
Notebook chips led the pack, growing by 26.6 per cent in the quarter, but server chips and desktop chips also did sort of OK, growing by 4.6 per cent and 7.7 per cent.
AMD and Intel both acted aggressively and that stimulated original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to buy em up. IDC said real end demand is there, and the OEMs are passing savings onto their customers.
AMD grew its overall market share to 23.5 per cent, which is only up 0.4 per cent, but Intel lost the same amount. In the notebook sector, AMD grew its share to 18.9 per cent and made gains in the server market oo - up 0.7 per cent to 13.9 per cent.
IDC is bullish about continuing sales in the fourth quarter. Which makes us wonder, what about the poor old Dramurai? And what impact is Vista having during all this bullishness. [Don't answer that, Ed.] ยต
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But I am having problems finding a laptop I want that is not preloaded with Vista. There are still a few being flogged with XP, which would be acceptable. But I won't have Vista. Perhaps the burst of mobile chips are people like me rushing to get the last of the XP loaded laptops?
CPU technology is really hitting s tride again with 65nm rolling and 45nm just around the bend. Let's see ANY company start making a higher end DX10 mobile gpu to go along with these insane 2.8+ghz dualcore notebooks! Sheesh.
the article reports a market share gain by AMD set against a market share loss by intel; what it fails to do is explain that AMD has been increasing their capacity, while Intel has yet to ramp 45nm. In a market where demand is growing quickly, Intel will sell out and walk away from low margin sales, thereby allowing AMD to pick up additional low end share.