Industry Upate AMD vs Intel

[FarFarAway]

It seems like AMD are grabbing a bigger and bigger share of the motherboards shipping market.

AnandTech have had a check round at Computek and it seems that AMD are grabbing a loions share of the boards shipped. Some companies claimed that AMD have from 40-65% of the share of their boards.

Note that only 7 months have passed since my last Industry Update, but a lot has changed in the market. Whereas largest percentage of AMD motherboards shipped we heard 7 months ago was 30%, this time around it was 65% for desktop motherboards. Most motherboard manufacturers we talked to claimed that between 40 and 65% of their motherboard shipments were AMD platforms, not Intel.

Intel aren't agreeing of course:

Our feeling is that the truth is somewhere in between; Intel continues to lead in OEM sales, however AMD has made some significant gains across the market. Not to mention that our sources for these figures have little reason to blatantly lie about them, and not a single manufacturer we talked to offered a vastly different story.

It seems AMD are kicking sme booty in the server market with some wild claims being bandied about:

We spoke to one server motherboard manufacturer whose current shipments are 90% AMD platforms and only 10% Intel platforms. We were absolutely shocked by these statistics, but it seems that most of the Intel server motherboards are being shipped by Supermicro with manufacturers like iWill and Tyan focusing much more on AMD.

Well this has to be good news IMO. Apart from the Intel dual cores that are looking a bargain (shut it Frag), Intel is sucking some ass in the CPU market and it looks as though the boards sales (not OEM of course) are reflecting this.

Full article @ AnandTech

 

[ionicle_old]

amd are probably easier processors to make bords for perhaps, maybe because of the northbridge, (or lack of!)