As per recent reports from IDC, PC processor market revenue will grow 7.5% in 2008 to more than $32.8 billion. Worldwide PC microprocessor shipments in the second calendar quarter of 2008 (2Q08) reached record levels again and  worldwide processor unit shipments grew 3.1% quarter over quarter and 16.1% year over year.

 Strong vendor price competition in the middle and low end of the desktop PC processor and mobile PC processor market segments caused overall market revenue to decline 4.5% quarter over quarter to $7.7 billion.

"While sequential market growth is unusual in the second quarter of the calendar year, it''''''''s clear that, in 2Q08, Intel''''''''s processor shipments drove the growth," said Shane Rau, director of Semiconductors: Personal Computing research at IDC. "Intel''''''''s processor shipments alone grew nearly 4.3% over the first quarter and 20.8% year over year, while AMD''''''''s processor shipments were about flat.

"In terms of processor vendor shares, on an overall unit basis, Intel earned 79.7% market share, a gain of 0.9%. AMD earned 19.7%, a loss of 1.2%.By form factor, in the mobile PC processor segment, Intel earned 86.5% share, a gain of 1.3% and AMD earned 12.6%, a loss of 1.9%.

 VIA Technologies, based in Taiwan, earned 0.9% share, a gain of 0.7%. In the PC server/workstation processor segment, Intel earned 86.2%, a loss of 0.8% and AMD earned 13.8%, a gain of 0.8%. In the desktop PC processor segment, Intel earned 73.3% share and AMD earned 26.4%; share changes were negligible.

 Deepa B Sayal/ITvoir Network