AMD’s Market Share Climbs Up / Intel’s Market Share Plunges

@ 2005/10/31
Advanced Micro Devices managed to sell more processors in the most recent calendar quarter and increase its market share rather significantly, the new figures from Mercury Research that were published on the Internet claim.

In the third quarter of 2005 the Sunnyvale, California-based chipmaker managed to capture 17.8% of the market, up 1.6% from 16.2% in the prior quarter. The Santa Clara, California-based Intel Corp., by contrast, lost 1.4% of its market share and now commands 80.8% of the market, the figures published over DigiTimes web-site show. VIA Technologies supplied 1.4% of all x86 chips, whereas market share of Transmeta Corp. was 0.1%, according to Q3 data from Mercury Research.

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