PC processor market to continue free fall in 2009

Stan Beer
Thursday, 12 February 2009 05:09

IT Industry - Market

While numbers were down for all vendors, the market decline has seen a flight away from the smaller player AMD and significant market share gains for market heavyweight Intel.

In 4Q08, Intel earned 81.9% unit market share, a gain of 1.1%, while AMD earned 17.7%, a loss of –0.9%, and VIA Technologies earned 0.4%. In the full year 2008, Intel earned 80.3% unit market share, a gain of 2.9%, AMD earned 19.2%, a loss of –3.1%, and VIA Technologies earned 0.4%.

In 4Q08 by form factor, Intel earned 89.1% share in the mobile PC processor segment, a gain of 1.7%, AMD finished with 10.2%, a loss of -1.2%, and VIA earned 0.7%.

In the PC server/workstation processor segment, Intel finished with 88.1% market share, a gain of 2.5% and AMD earned 11.9%, a loss of –2.5%. In the desktop PC processor segment, Intel earned 73.9%, a gain of 0.4%, and AMD earned 26.0%, a loss of –0.4%.

In 2008 by form factor, Intel earned 87.1% share in the mobile PC processor segment, a gain of 4.8%, AMD finished with 12.1%, a loss of –5.3%, and VIA earned 0.8%, a gain of 0.5%.

In the PC server/workstation processor segment, Intel finished with 86.6% market share, a gain of 0.9% and AMD earned 13.4%, a loss of –0.9%.

In the desktop PC processor segment, AMD's strongest sector, Intel and AMD earned 73.4% and 26.4% share respectively; share changes were negligible.