Wall Street Journal reports that Advanced Micro Devices Inc. surpassed Intel Corp. in supplying CPUs for computers sold in retail stores for the month of October.
The company, Current Analysis, says it expects Intel may take back the lead in November. Retail stores, moreover, represent a narrow slice of the PC market, excluding major manufacturers such as Dell Inc., which use only Intel chips.
Nevertheless, the results are a sign that the underdog chip maker has become a fixture in the consumer PC market. Matt Sargent, Current Analysis’s research director, said AMD’s success could cause some suppliers to corporations, which almost exclusively use Intel-based PCs, to consider buying from AMD. “AMD is marginalized in the corporate arena,” Mr. Sargent said. “If you look at spaces where AMD is allowed to compete with Intel, they can compete and surpass them.”
Submitted by: edcentric
Source: Wall Street Journal
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