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To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (182509)11/1/2005 8:37:33 PM
From: TimF   of 186894
 
Growth of 2% in market share in a large market year after year for 6 years is healthy growth.

But you can pick any point in AMD's existence and claim they went from almost 0% to 12% (depending on exactly how you define the market) and divide by the number of years, and get an arbitrarily small % for market share growth each year.

The Opteron was introduced in 2003. Before the Opterons introduction AMD's sever market share was no significant. Now its at least 12%. Which gives a market share growth of more like 5 or 6% a year not 2%. That is very strong growth in market share. Esp when starting from near zero. Large absolute growth from near zero may be easier then growth from a large base (doubling units from 10k is normally easier then doubling units when you already dominate the market), but market share growth from near zero is often harder when you are measuring growth as a percentage of the whole market (rather than saying something like "we doubled our market share"). Moving from 0.5% of the market to 5.5% is normally harder than moving from 50% of the market to 50.5%. The first would be an example of enormous absolute growth making inroads in to new markets. The latter would be just a fluctuation in market share.

Tim
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