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AMD Tops Intel in U.S. Retail Sales
jimmydins writes "According to digitimes.com, AMD Surpassed Intel in US Retail Sales for the month of September." From the article: "After facing what seemed an insurmountable decline in desktop PC sales during the first six months of 2005, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) captured a 52% share of the US retail desktop PC market in September, according to Current Analysis. AMD's performance during the back-to-school shopping season topped chip giant Intel's 46% share by six points, said the market research firm. Despite its past successes in surpassing Intel desktop sales in select retail sales weeks, September 2005 marked the first time AMD was able to outperform Intel for an entire month, the research firm stated." In order to keep this in perspective, C|Net points out that this doesn't include direct PC sales, so no Dell sales are included in these numbers. Good showing for AMD just the same, though.
This had to be expected. AMD processors are good, it's normal that their popularity increases.
Apple has doomed Intel, anything they're involved in (except for music) is destined for 5% marketshare.
More and more people buy PC's direct, rather than retail. Temporary solution: when you're tallying sales numbers, just pretend Dell doesn't exist!
In any case, notebook sales have topped desktops. AMD really dropped the ball on that one -- they have absolutely nothing which remotely compares to the Pentium M, and even Steve Jobs was forced to admit it.
Oh well, if AMD suffers due to its poor business decisions, they can always cry to the government about Intel the Big Bad Monopoly. Lord knows they shouldn't have to lose any money just because of lousy management.