AMD gained market share in Q4, lost it again in Q1

[Viditor]

The Barcelona slippage has finally hit AMD's numbers...
EDN Article

"In terms of unit share, Intel?s microprocessor unit share improved to 79% in Q1 vs. 77% in Q4, and gained 3.5% unit share in notebooks in Q1, increasing its share to 86% vs. 82% in Q4 2007. For servers, Intel?s unit share rose to 87% and 74% in desktops"

 

[Idontcare]

Can't get past the advertisement to read the contents of the link (the skip ad button not working...)

But this could go some distance to explain why the Phenom and X3's are prices so "oddly" with respect to the competition. (as discussed in another thread)

AMD must be volume constrained (not fab constrained, likely still ramping the B3's thru the fab is all) and they are selling all they can ship despite the less than stellar competitive pricing on the X3's versus the X2's and the Phenoms. Anand had an interesting summation in his article:

Let's start at the Phenom X3 8750; it's priced too closely to the X4 9750 to make sense, if you need more than two cores spend the extra $20 and get a quad-core (or give up 200MHz and get a quad-core X4 9550 at the same price) and if you don't need more than two cores then you're looking at the wrong CPU to begin with.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuch...owdoc.aspx?i=3293&p=10