Share of Intel processor declines in 1Q09, says iSuppli

Press release, June 10; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES [Wednesday 10 June 2009]
Intel's year-long streak of sequential market-share gains in the global processor business ended in the first quarter of 2009, as chief rival AMD staged a comeback, according to iSuppli.
Intel suffered a 2.5pp decrease in share, with its portion of global revenues declining to 79.1%, down from 81.6% in the fourth quarter of 2008. Meanwhile, AMD gained share at a nearly equivalent rate, with its share in the first quarter rising by 2.3pp to 12.8%, up from 10.5% in the fourth quarter.
"After losing share to Intel on a sequential basis during three out of four quarters in 2008, AMD managed to reverse the trend in the first quarter of 2009," said Matthew Wilkins, iSuppli's principal analyst for compute platforms research. "AMD increased its allocation of global processor revenues due to strong performances in each area of its CPU portfolio, particularly in its notebook products. This was an impressive feat given the economic downturn and the weakness in the PC and server markets, which caused global processor revenues in the first quarter to decline by 20.6% to US$6.9 billion, down from US$8.6 billion during the same period in 2008.