It may be just in North America, just on the retail desktop and just a week, but challenger AMD is being credited with selling more of its processors in retail desktop machines than rival Intel for the week ended April 24th. In the findings from La Jolla, California-based Current Analysis, AMD accounted for 52 percent of retail desktop sales compared with Intel’s 47 percent for the week, in contrast to total PC market shares of 37 percent for AMD and 61 percent for Intel. This marks the first time in almost five years that AMD has surpassed its larger competitor.
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AMD Beats Intel in Processor Sales
Posted by: Jay Lyman May 4, 2004 11:17 AMIt may be just in North America, just on the retail desktop and just a week, but challenger AMD is being credited with selling more of its processors in retail desktop machines than rival Intel for the week ended April 24th. In the findings from La Jolla, California-based Current Analysis, AMD accounted for 52 percent of retail desktop sales compared with Intel’s 47 percent for the week, in contrast to total PC market shares of 37 percent for AMD and 61 percent for Intel. This marks the first time in almost five years that AMD has surpassed its larger competitor.