Sales figures:
news.cnet.com
For October
Microprocessors made by Intel powered 63 percent of all PCs sold at retail stores in October and 59 percent of those costing less than $1,000. Advanced Micro Devices' share of the overall retail market was 33 percent, and 35 percent for the sub-$1,000 market.
I dug up this report from August:
news.cnet.com.
Market-share figures for Intel in the low-cost market are solid, a segment it had once all but lost to Advanced Micro Devices. In the sub-$1,000 market, despite the fact that AMD offers eight speeds of chips below $1,000 and Intel offers only five, Intel remains dominant with 44.4 percent of unit sales, according to Boswell. "Although AMD improved their marketshare to 42.5 percent, it was not enough to surpass Intel. Cyrix picked up the slack with 13.1 percent marketshare at this price."
If I read these articles correctly, I would appear that AMD has lost market share in the sub $1000 market (no surprise). Of course the important question...what are the percentages of over $1,000 retail sales? I tried finding this info on pc data's site and on CNET, but without luck. If AMD now has 33 percent of the overall retail market..this would seem to support that they are picking up market share in the high end. Anyone know the split between sub-$1,000 and over $1,000?
-Scot |
