Intel Continues to Dominate, But AMD Slightly Gains CPU Market Share

From X-bit Labs: Worldwide PC microprocessor revenues in the fourth calendar quarter of 2011 (Q4 2011) rose to $10.9 billion, up 1.8% compared to Q3 2011 and up 14.2% compared to Q4 2010, according to the latest PC microprocessor market share study from International Data Corp. (IDC). For the year 2011 compared to 2010, PC microprocessor revenues rose 13.2% to more than $41 billion.

Looking at processor unit shipments in 2011 compared to 2010, overall shipments grew 3.6%. By form factor, mobile PC processor unit shipments grew 3.9% in 2011, while x86 server processor unit shipments grew 9.0%, and desktop processor unit shipments grew 2.7%.

In the desktop PC processor segment, Intel's market share was 73.8%, a gain of 1.7%; AMD shipped 26.0% of chips, a loss of 1.6%; and Via Technologies dropped to 0.2%, a loss of 0.2%.

Intel supplied 83.8% of mobile PC processor segment, a loss of 2.6%; AMD finished with 16.0%, a gain of 2.7%; and Via Technologies earned 0.2%, a loss of 0.1%.

In the server/workstation processor segment, Intel finished with 94.5% market share, a gain of 1.5% and AMD shipped 5.5% of processors, a loss of 1.5%.

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