AMD to gain market share from Intel in the quarter 2 / 2011
Fusion chip demand helped increase market share accounted for AMD processor (CPU) from Intel in the quarter 2 / 2011, Mercury Research said in a study released on 07/28/2011.
Quarter 2 / 2011, AMD's x86 processor market share grew to 19.4%, up from 17.8% in quarter 2 / 2010. Intel's market share dropped to 79.9% from 81.3% in quarter 2 / 2010. AMD to benefit from growing demand for computer cheap amid gloomy economic conditions in a of the world, Dean McCarron, principal analyst at Mercury Research said. AMD is cheaper than competing chips from Intel, and demand the latest AMD Fusion chip from the PC manufacturers are very strong. They AMD's Fusion chip integrated CPU and graphics processor (GPU) inside a single chip. PC makers like Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba used the Fusion chip, code-named Llano (which AMD recently released, toward the mainstream PC). In May 6 / 2011, HP announced 11 new notebook chips Llano , Llano and notebook chips are priced between U.S. $ 500-700 Toshiba, Samsung and Acer production.Until Monday first fiscal quarter (ending on 07/02/2011) AMD has released about 12 million chips Fusion, interim CEO of AMD, said Thomas Seifert. The Fusion chips account for about 70% of AMD's mobile chip.
Last week, Intel announced its chip sales was partly due to gap netbook market decline in the second quarter, although demand for the Core chip is very large in volume business customers. Intel has revised expected growth in PC sales was about 8% for the year, somewhat lower than the figure expected to rise 2 at the beginning of this year.
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