HP claims pole position for server chips

The firm pointed to figures from market research firm IDC. In the high performance sector, it was numero uno in revenue terms with a 34.5 per cent market share.

Overall, it held 28.8 per cent of total server shipments, and claimed it is number one in the X86 server space, with a 33.1 per cent revenue share and the number one in units shipped, too.

As far as AMD Opterons go, HP has a revenue share of 47 per cent. Even for 64-bit Xeons it is number one, it said.

A marketing man in charge of enterprise storage and servers, Mark Hudson, became the first spokesman of the day to use the phrase "moving forward".

Truly it does appear to be number one in practically everything server related, although we noticed it didn't crow about Itanium very much.

Of course, HP is spinning it its own way. The IDC report nominate IBM as number one in the worldwide server systems market with 33.1 per cent share in factory revenue. HP, said IDC, continued to hold the number two spot. IDC said it had 27.7 per cent share - a decline of 2.1 per cent year on year, "driven by difficult fiscal to calendar quarter conversions". µ