AMD boasts of corporate gains

AMD HAS GAINED MARKET SHARE from arch rival Intel according to figures publiched by Gartner Dataquest. The reseach firm says AMD's market share grew from 18 per cent in 2000 to 22 per cent in 2002.

Particularly pleasing to Tweedle-dum will be news that it has made inroads into the corporate sector. Gartner says AMD gained 17 per cent in the US small business desktop sector in 2001 and increased medium business desktop market share from 11 per cent to 28 per cent. It claims gains from 12 per cent to 17 per cent and growth in the US education market and government sector presence doubled to 32 per cent.

In a statement, Ed Ellett, AMD marketing VP claimed the figures confirmed the correctness of AMD's commercial planning. He hyped AMD's next key to the corporate safe would be the Hammer. "AMD's momentum continues into 2002 with our recent demonstration of our next generation processor, codenamed Hammer," he said. "We expect to begin shipping the first version of the Hammer family of processors at the end of 2002." µ * AMD today announced a deal with Compaq to ship an AThlon-based Presario system sporting nVidia's integrated graphics chipset nForce. The system is aimed at home and small business users, the company said.