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Maui Nick · 06-04-2006, 03:58 PM

I just did a little research on this.

The Register, the UK tech publication, reported that Intel lost half of a percentage point of market share going from the last quarter of 2005 to the first quarter of 2006. However, AMD was up less than a third of a percentage point in that same time period, with Transmeta and VIA picking up the remainder of Intel's great, overwhelming loss.

However, increased sales of x86 laptops help to boost Intel's market share in an area where it already has an overwhelming advantage, and AMD's new Turion is a laptop battery killer. AMD used a little sleight-of-hand to make it appear that the Turion is superior to the Pentium M, but failed to mention to anybody that it did not compare similar systems. In other words, the Turion's perceived advantage is bupkis.

Speaking of laptops ... As the Register noted elsewhere, Intel's Centrino brand covers not only the laptop processor, but the computer's logic board and the wireless rig and is a stronger marketing proposition then a brand focused solely on the processor.

And some final notes about market share: Intel now owns 100% of the marketplace for processors in new Apple Macintosh computers. Oh, by the way ... Intel still holds 81.7 percent of the world's processor market share for x86-based computers.

So, um, what was it you were complaining about, exactly?

06-04-2006, 03:58 PM	#5
Maui Nick ... is not really in Maui. Weird, huh? Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Near the beach Posts: 153	I just did a little research on this. The Register, the UK tech publication, reported that Intel lost half of a percentage point of market share going from the last quarter of 2005 to the first quarter of 2006. However, AMD was up less than a third of a percentage point in that same time period, with Transmeta and VIA picking up the remainder of Intel's great, overwhelming loss. However, increased sales of x86 laptops help to boost Intel's market share in an area where it already has an overwhelming advantage, and AMD's new Turion is a laptop battery killer. AMD used a little sleight-of-hand to make it appear that the Turion is superior to the Pentium M, but failed to mention to anybody that it did not compare similar systems. In other words, the Turion's perceived advantage is bupkis. Speaking of laptops ... As the Register noted elsewhere, Intel's Centrino brand covers not only the laptop processor, but the computer's logic board and the wireless rig and is a stronger marketing proposition then a brand focused solely on the processor. And some final notes about market share: Intel now owns 100% of the marketplace for processors in new Apple Macintosh computers. Oh, by the way ... Intel still holds 81.7 percent of the world's processor market share for x86-based computers. So, um, what was it you were complaining about, exactly? __________________ PROJECT STILL TO BE COMPLETED: Adding silly *.sig.