Intel has 86 per cent mobile PC market share

BEAN COUNTERS at IDC have reported that the worldwide mobile PC chip market grew by 7.4 per cent year on year in the first quarter of 2011 and that Intel had over 86 per cent marketshare.

According to the data harvested by IDC, both Intel and AMD were raking it in with their latest mobile PC processors, with both companies shipping more chips than expected. However IDC pointed out that the shipments data was tracked with an extra week counted in the quarter, which helped to artificially boost sales figures a bit.

In terms of overall PC processor vendor marketshare, Chipzilla grabbed 80.8 per cent while AMD took 18.9 per cent with VIA Technologies barely moving the needle with 0.2 per cent.

In the mobile PC processor market, Intel gained 0.2 per cent to get 86.3 per cent marketshare, and AMD accounted for only 13.4 per cent with a slight loss of 0.1 per cent.

AMD fared better with a slight gain in the server market with a 0.3 per cent gain, but a much smaller marketshare of 6.1 per cent. Chimpzilla did better in the desktop market where it gained 0.1 per cent and had a bigger slice of the market at 27.4 per cent.

Overall, Intel maintained its PC processor market dominance and will continue to add to the $41.9 billion in sales that it booked last year.

IDC also threw in its quarterly predictions, forecasting that the PC processor market will see shipment growth of 10.3 per cent and revenue growth of 17.6 per cent by the end of 2011, adding up to $43 billion. µ