AMD and Intel General Discussion (not for getting help)

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Its a great market there, and AMD is trying
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQP_UhSGfaI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk-2ic2BoZw

 

[fazers_on_stun]

This just in:

AMD, Intel Recover, Although AMD Loses Ground

In a report released Tuesday, Mercury Research reported that unit sales of microprocessors at both AMD and Intel rose, as an inventory bubble that existed in the first quarter worked its way through. But that also meant that Intel regained market share that AMD had previously won.

Overall, the CPU market was up 13.8 percent relative to the first quarter, and down 2.9 percent year-over-year, Mercury reported. That, the firm said, was due to a first-quarter bubble of inventory that worked its way through by the second quarter. Mobile chips showed the strongest growth, the firm said.

Mercury did not release the absolute numbers of CPUs sold.

For the second quarter, AMD's market share slipped from 20.9 percent to 18.7 percent, slightly lower than the 18.8 percent share the firm recorded in the second quarter of 2008. Intel, meanwhile, saw its share increase from 80.0 percent a year ago to 80.5 percent, up from 78.2 percent during the first quarter of 2009.

"This appears to be the first quarter in some time that is reflecting close to actual demand, suggesting that the PC processor market (and ultimately PCs) is roughly flat with pre-crisis 2008 volumes," Dean McCarron, principal analyst at Mercury, wrote in a note to reporters.

So it looks like Intel recovered all the marketshare lost to AMD in the first quarter...

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Mobile chips showed the strongest growth, the firm said.

 

[fazers_on_stun]

It'll be interesting to see the server marketshare when the numbers come out.

Here's an industry presentation purporting to show DT hitting a wall in about 6 years, while mobile continues rapid growth. Another interesting item - hardly any semiconductor companies remain in the top 10 for more than 3 decades - so Intel, going into its 4th decade, is bucking the odds...

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

OK, I'll say it here What, me worry?

 

[archibael]

Given your avatar, that's entirely appropriate.

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

You are one of the few that gets it. Ive been asked who or why Im using this avatar many times

PS Its actually from a calender back in the 191x's, and is the earliest known picture of good ol Al, tho he wasnt at the time

As they say, every artist is a canabal every poet is a thief, they all kill their insperation, then sing about their grief

 

[archibael]

I'm not old enough to have been reading it as far back as your avatar goes, but I have every magazine they published from Jan 1980 (The Empire Strikes Back issue) through 1985... and scattered others from then on.

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Someone here has a spy vs spy avatar, 1 red, 1 green, with ATI and nVidia logos on them, with the 2 spies about to kill each other heheh

 

[amdfangirl]

Someone once told me that you get around on this site more than most. ONE LINE REPLIES.

Hey, it's efficient use of words!

 

[Reynod]

No ... she has nothing interesting to add really.

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Now THATS interesting

 

[amdfangirl]

What was the topic on again?

 

[TechnologyCoordinator]

What was the topic on again?

Intel IGPs... I think.

 

[fazers_on_stun]

nVidia Posts a Profit

Looks like they beat the street for Q2:

Shares of graphics chip maker Nvidia (NVDA) are up 66 cents, roughly 5%, at $13.78 this evening after the company reported Q2 sales and profit per share ahead of estimates and provided a better-than-expected forecast for Q3.

 

[roofus]

nVidia Posts a Profit

Looks like they beat the street for Q2:

Shares of graphics chip maker Nvidia (NVDA) are up 66 cents, roughly 5%, at $13.78 this evening after the company reported Q2 sales and profit per share ahead of estimates and provided a better-than-expected forecast for Q3.

I did my part and bought a pair of 295's.

 

[Reynod]

I bought a 260 ... shame on me.

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Well, theres speculators, then theres facts
http://www.techreport.com/discussions.x/17366

 

[roofus]

AMD/ATI wishes they were only 75 mil in the tank. I bought some goodies from them too so I have a clean conscience.

 

[fazers_on_stun]

Well, theres speculators, then theres facts
http://www.techreport.com/discussions.x/17366

Heh, well they still beat the street, plus they actually earned 7 cents a share, instead of losing 49 cents a share like a certain competitor 😀.

Stockwise, they are up and AMD is still down by around $1 a share due to not meeting the street expectations...

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Intel innocent? Or do they have their own TWIMTBP'd program?
http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_13017509?nclick_check=1

 

[archibael]

I can't comment on the case, but I'm curious... what is that acronym?

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

The Way Its Meant To Be Played, its nVidia's program for early entry "working" with games devs

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Basically, its my ongoing back and forth dig at fazers

 

[archibael]

Ah. Okay, thanks!