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AMD Tops Intel in U.S. Retail Sales

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-the-underdog dept.

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.

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  1. In other news... by Tezkah · · Score: 4, Funny

    Tezkah reports: Chef Tezkah holds the record this week for most meals sold! He captured 52% of the meal market for the first six months of 2005. Congratulations Chef Tezkah! Its important to note that this doesn't include any meals sold in restaurants, but good showing for Tezkah just the same.

  2. Re:No Direct Sales? by Randolpho · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was surprised to learn that there *was* still a retail market for computers.

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  3. Buggy Pentiums by ewg · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm pretty sure these statistics were prepared on a PC with one of those faulty Pentiums.

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    1. Re:Buggy Pentiums by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      1996.00000000000007531146789045 called. It wants its joke back.

  4. Re:No Direct Sales? by greg_barton · · Score: 3, Funny

    by CynicalGuy

    Seems like an incredibly flawed survey.

    Hmmmm... I'm sensing a pattern here...

  5. Dell's disservice to its customers by unsigned+integer · · Score: 3, Funny
    I can only imagine the hookers and blow that Intel is sending to Dell, to keep it exclusively using Intel processors. Benchmarks, tests, performance reviews, all laud praise onto AMD and their processors, yet Dell continues to steadfastly use sub-par chips.

    Ah, to be the Dell CEO and snorting lines off a hooker's ass ...