AMD Grabs Market Share as CPU Shipments Increase

From X-bit Labs: Worldwide PC microprocessor unit shipments and revenues in the second calendar quarter of 2010 (Q2 2010) increased 3.6% and 6.2%, respectively, compared to the first quarter of 2010, according to the latest PC processor study from International Data Corporation (IDC).

The average sequential change in unit shipments between a calendar year's first quarter and its second quarter is an increase of 1.6%. For revenues, the average sequential change is a decrease of -2.8%. So, these increases represent better performance than usual for a second calendar quarter.

"Such a sequential increase in PC processor shipments alone would have been enough to conclude that the first half was strong for the market. However, a modest rise in revenues, too, points directly to a rise in average selling prices. System makers bought more and higher-priced PC processors in Q2 2010 than in Q1 2010. Digging a little deeper into the numbers shows that they bought more mobile processors and more server processors, while desktop processors remained flat," said Shane Rau director of semiconductors: personal computing research at IDC.

Looking at market performance by PC form factor, mobile PC processor unit shipments rose 6.5% quarter over quarter, PC server processors rose 6.1% quarter over quarter, and desktop PC processors declined -0.1% quarter over quarter.

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