AMD Losing More Ground Against Intel

November 29th, 2007

Move over AMD. Sony and Toshiba have bumped you off the top-10 list — and Intel remains king of the chipmakers. According to iSuppli’s preliminary 2007 global semiconductor market share estimate, Intel is the top of the heap. Intel’s chip revenue is expected to rise 7.7 percent in 2007 to reach $33.97 billion, up from $31.5 billion in 2006.Intel exceeded the overall semiconductor industry growth rate of 4.1 percent in 2007 and massively outperformed its PC microprocessor rival AMD, whose sales are expected to decline by 22.7 percent for the year.

“Throughout most of the year, Intel successfully defended much of the market share that it won from AMD in the first quarter in the PC microprocessor segment due to the success of its lines of dual- and quad-core chips,” Dale Ford, vice president of market intelligence for iSuppli, said in a statement. “This represents a major reversal of fortune compared to 2006, when AMD had the advantage with its popular dual-core microprocessors, allowing it to gain share from Intel.”

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