AMD moving on up

[Geoffrey]

Advanced Micro Devices continues to move on up in the PC market.

The chipmaker, leveraging the strength of its Athlon processor, boosted its share of desktop PC sales worldwide last year, according to a new report from researcher Gartner. AMD, citing the report, said it increased its share of desktop PCs from 18 percent in 2000 to 22 percent in 2001.

AMD executives were quick to point out that the gains came during the worst PC market since 1985. PC unit shipments declined by approximately 5 percent in 2001, a year marked by a slowing economy and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. At the same time, rival chipmaker Intel went on the offensive, quickly reducing prices on its new Pentium 4 processor. The moves touched off a price war between the two companies.

"2001 marked a banner year for the AMD Athlon family...It is especially significant that we were able to increase market share within a challenging business climate," Ed Ellett, AMD's vice president of marketing, said in a statement Thursday.

AMD said it fared particularly well with consumer desktop PCs in Japan and Western Europe. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company did not break out its North American consumer PC sales figures, choosing instead to cite fourth-quarter gains in the U.S. market for corporate desktop PCs.

According to Gartner, AMD's share of small-business desktop sales increased from 20 percent to 37 percent in the fourth quarter, compared with the same quarter a year ago. In the same period, its share of desktop PC sales to mid-sized businesses rose from 11 percent to 28 percent, and its share of the government market jumped from 16 percent to 32 percent.

AMD chips were also present in 42 percent of desktop PCs shipped in the Japanese home PC market in 2001, according to the report. AMD accounted for 41 percent of home desktop PCs shipped in Western Europe and 28 percent of those shipped in Eastern Europe.

Overall, AMD's PC processor market share, including notebook and server chips, stood at 20.2 percent in 2001, according to Mercury Research, up from 16.7 percent in 2000. Intel finished 2001 with 78.7 percent of the global PC processor market, down from 82.2 percent in 2000, according to figures released by Mercury in January.

I just got my XP1700+ in

[Manu]

So far, I gotta say, my Xp1800+ SCREAMS. BUT...I think I'd have rather gone witha P4 2.0...

Why ya may ask? I could avoiud having a large heat sink/loud fan just for 'normal' temps. You can run a P4 off of a 240 'silent' power supply.

Thats worth 200ish bucks more to me.

[u8nxprt]

Originally posted by Manu
So far, I gotta say, my Xp1800+ SCREAMS. BUT...I think I'd have rather gone witha P4 2.0...

Why ya may ask? I could avoiud having a large heat sink/loud fan just for 'normal' temps. You can run a P4 off of a 240 'silent' power supply.

Thats worth 200ish bucks more to me.

I agree...

[The Frog]

Originally posted by Manu
So far, I gotta say, my Xp1800+ SCREAMS. BUT...I think I'd have rather gone witha P4 2.0...

Why ya may ask? I could avoiud having a large heat sink/loud fan just for 'normal' temps. You can run a P4 off of a 240 'silent' power supply.

Thats worth 200ish bucks more to me.

Not me, I'll pay less, get more and put up with the little bit of added noise. IF bills weren't so tihgt right now, I'd have an Athlon 2100+ wedged in my system board right now. As it is, sicne I've a 1.2GHz Athlon now, I'll wait until I get get a 2500+ and by then I might have the money for it....

[Manu]

Originally posted by TheFrog


Not me, I'll pay less, get more and put up with the little bit of added noise. IF bills weren't so tihgt right now, I'd have an Athlon 2100+ wedged in my system board right now. As it is, sicne I've a 1.2GHz Athlon now, I'll wait until I get get a 2500+ and by then I might have the money for it....

Yeah, just personal prefernece. My computer at home is right next to my bed...if I had a P4 I could keep it on all night...with teh various cooling, I can't cause it keeps me up! lol.

[The Frog]

Originally posted by Manu


Yeah, just personal prefernece. My computer at home is right next to my bed...if I had a P4 I could keep it on all night...with teh various cooling, I can't cause it keeps me up! lol.

Our systems are in the study. That's down the hall on the left from the master bedroom. Can't hear them running from anywhere else, really.