AMD Passes Intel on PCs

[zippyjuan]

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/dis...108103221.html

AMD Manages to Leave Intel Behind in U.S. Retail PC Sales.
AMD Dominates Retail Desktops in U.S., Increases Mobile Market Share

Category: CPU

by Anton Shilov

[ 11/08/2005 | 10:34 AM ]


Advanced Micro Devices managed to continue to boost its market share in the U.S. retail market of computers, both desktops and laptops, in October. The result was that in terms of units the company succeeded in surpassing much larger rival Intel Corp., supplied the majority of desktop processors and managed to raise the number of its mobile computers sold. Nevertheless, in terms of sales Intel Corp. still dominated.

Based on data derived from the Current Analysis’ Retail Panel, a panel comprised of the nation’s leading consumer electronics retailers, in October 2005, 49.8% of the personal computers (desktops and notebooks combined) sold in the U.S. retail market utilized AMD processors, thus allowing AMD to narrowly surpass Intel, which accounted for 48.5% of the market.

AMD’s share of unit sales in the U.S. retail desktop space increased from 52.0% in September to 67.7% in October. AMD’s share of unit sales in the U.S. retail notebook space increased from 26.2% in September to 31.5% in October, Current Analysis noted. Despite the company’s superior standing in the arena, AMD’s October revenue share of retail PC sales (40.1%) trails that of Intel (57.6%) because the average selling price of Intel PCs is significantly larger than AMD-based personal computers.

AMD led Intel in the desktop category by 6% margin in the month of September as well, thus, the company sustained growth in the category in October and, subsequently, extended its lead across the entire U.S. retail PC category during the month.

“AMD did the unthinkable by surpassing Intel in October. Continuing to hold this lead in the holiday season would be a colossal win for the company,” said Matt Sargent, director of research at Current Analysis.

October serves as the transition between the back-to-school and winter holiday shopping seasons. The period between Black Friday and Christmas will ultimately define the success of the fourth quarter. However, these October sales results, as well as the well-documented rumor that Wal-Mart will offer a $398 AMD notebook and a $398 AMD desktop on Black Friday, indicate that AMD is in a stronger position to compete with Intel than it has been in past holiday seasons, according to Current Analysis.

[Bires]

Sounds about right. I own 10 Intel PCs and only 2 AMD PCs, and my next big CPU upgrade will be AMD. I am still thrilled at the 2600+ running in my HTPC, at never more than 35C.

[kimchicowboy]

dude, what do you do with all those PCs?

[_=DeltaForce=_]

I have 7 PC's in my house

My gaming Laptop
HTPC
My Gaming Desktop
Server
Mom's Laptop
Dad's Desktop

[Bires]

dude, what do you do with all those PCs?

8 are my lab computers in my classroom for molecular modelling, data collection and graphing, and playing Shogo, Serious SamSE, and C&C RA2 with the kids in my video game club.

[chrisa86wm]

i have 5 pcs 4 intel and the newest one is amd. all i can say is that i am not going back to intel any time soon.

[hapoo]

lets not forget how much money intel has stock piled away. It could last a looooong time not doing anything. Not to mention all the money they can afford to spend on ads.

I personally have 3 fully functioning computers in my app. (I can probably put together another 3 with the parts laying around)

[kimchicowboy]

C&C RA2

oldie, but goodie. one of my favorites.

i'd definitely build a new AMD rig when i have a chance. but in the meantime, my powerbook has been wonderful.