Intel and AMD benefit from strong demand and price war lull in 3Q
Intel and AMD in the third quarter both managed to gain share in the global CPU market due to robust sales of PCs and servers and the cessation of the brutal price war, according to market share rankings released by iSuppli.
n the third quarter, Intel accounted for 78.7% of global processor revenues, up 0.3 of a percentage point from 78.4% in the second quarter. AMD fared even better with its share rising by more than the twice the level of Intel’s to reach 13.9%, up 0.6 of a percentage point from 13.3% in the second quarter. The two CPU suppliers gained at the expense of smaller rivals, whose collective share of global revenues declined to 7.4% in the third quarter, down from 8.2% in the second quarter. Yet again in the third quarter, the two processor giants accounted for an increasing share of total market revenues. Combined, Intel and AMD claimed almost 93% of global processor revenues in the third quarter of 2007 an increase of two percentage points compared to the third quarter of 2006.
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