14 DAY TRIAL // Apparently, AMD is going through another paradoxical period at the moment, with one facet of the business growing while another, or the overall financial outlook, is sliding downwards.
Advanced Micro Devices has definitely been making the news with all the Fusion APUs and assorted motherboards from its partners.
Still, even though things might be looking up on the consumer segment, the same cannot be said of its other outlets.
On the one hand, its status on the supercomputing front had risen, as was shown clearly by the number of AMD-based HPC applications on the TOP500 list.
On the other hand, analysts are now reporting that the company is not doing so well in the general-purpose server and mobile systems fields.
According to iSuppli, AMD secured only 10/1% of the global chip revenue in 2011, less than the 10.9% of Q4 2010.
This means that Intel snatched 1.6% away from it, reaching 82.6% share, a rise from the 81% of the previous three-month period.
“Intel moved quickly to identify and correct the Sandy Bridge chipset issue during the first quarter,” said Matthew Wilkins, principal analyst, compute platforms, for IHS.
“The fact that the company achieved a 25 percent increase in revenue in the first quarter of 2011 compared to the same period in 2010 shows that its chipset concern did not really affect the company to a significant degree. This serves as a testament to Intel’s capability to react to a potential crisis with speed and agility. Intel’s handling of the issue on both the public relations and business fronts stands in stark contrast to other recent examples of big companies facing major product quality challenges.”
As for the two of them combined, they control 92.7% of the entire microprocessor industry, or did so in Q1, while Q4 2010 had them at 92.4%.