The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
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.
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