Company	Q3'05	Q2'05	Q3'04
Intel	80.8%	82.2%	82.1%
AMD	17.8%	16.2%	15.9%

Source: Mercury Research

AMD Treads on Intel Turf

Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) continued a slow but steady erosion of Intel's dominance of the chip space in the third quarter. AMD's share rose to 17.8% in the period from 15.9% a year earlier, according to a survey by Mercury Research. Intel's share slipped to 80.8%, says Mercury, which tracks sales of chips to PC, server and workstation manufacturers. Dean McCarron, head of Mercury, says AMD typically gets a boost in the third quarter. "AMD's product mix is a little more consumer-oriented than Intel's and so it tends to see a seasonal gain every year," he says. Also helping AMD is its new Turion chip for notebooks.

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Posted: 11/14/05