2% gain for AMD over 1 year period, 2% slip for Intel.eWeek is citing some figures from Mercury Research which suggests that AMD has made some steady gains on Intel in the past year, to the tune of a 2% change in marketshare.?
AMD still managed to gain ground, aided by a better-sorted value line of processors and small but steady gains with its Opteron server chip as well, said Dean McCarron, principal analyst with Mercury Research. When comparing its first-quarter 2005 performance to the first quarter of 2004, during which it had 15 percent share, AMD shows a gain of nearly two percentage points, according to the Mercury Research figures.
There is no doubt that AMD's desktop and server offerings are pretty compelling but not everything is rosy. The article further goes on to talk about the growing significance of laptop processors, an area that Intel still has a pretty solid lock on.
