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Intel Gains Market Share After AMD's Loss
News JP Morgan released a research note Tuesday containing market share data compiled by Mercury Research. Dean McCarron of Mercury confirmed the basic numbers, which had Intel's share soaring to 80.5 percent in the first quarter, from 74.4 percent in...
[April 25, 2007, 9:30]
Intel Gains Market Share On AMD's Back
News The chip maker commanded 82.8 percent of the worldwide market for processors, including sales of processors for Microsoft's Xbox, according to Mercury Research, a market research firm. Even monitor makers said customers seemed more intent on buying...
[July 31, 2002, 8:11]
AMD Claws Back Market Share
News Intel's market share dropped 1.4 points to 80.8 percent in third quarter ending September 30, from 82.2 percent in the second quarter, according to a report on Taiwanese tech site Digitimes that cited figures from Mercury Research.
[October 27, 2005, 9:15]
AMD Gains Ground On Intel
News After a miserable year, the fourth quarter ultimately spelled good news for both chipmakers, said Dean McCarron, principle at Mercury Research and keeper of the numbers. AMD gained nearly four points of market share against its rival to end the...
[January 25, 2002, 9:05]
AMD Narrows Intel Gap, Boosts Hammer
News The figures, from Mercury Research analyst Dean McCarron, do not include PowerPC shipments to Apple Computer. Without Xbox, Intel's market share in terms of shipments dropped 0.8 percent to 79.8 percent while AMD's market share rose 0.7 percent to...
[May 1, 2002, 8:44]
End Of An Era As Sanders Leaves AMD
News Now when you look at it, AMD is very much a manufacturing company," said Mercury Research's McCarron. There is no question that they significantly altered the landscape of the PC industry," said Dean McCarron, an analyst at market research firm...
[April 25, 2002, 9:32]
Intel Seeks Chip Set Domination
News The primary motivator for Intel to move to the P6 bus was the competitive landscape," said Mike Feibus, principal analyst with semiconductor market watcher Mercury Research Inc. Over the past two years, its share of the market has jumped to almost...
[March 16, 1998, 9:47]
A Year Ago: Intel Seeks Chip Set Domination
News The primary motivator for Intel to move to the P6 bus was the competitive landscape," said Mike Feibus, principal analyst with semiconductor market watcher Mercury Research Inc. Over the past two years, its share of the market has jumped to almost...
[March 16, 1999, 6:51]
Intel Sets Date For Chip-naming Change
News The need for a metric that's beyond clock speed is becoming increasingly evident," said Dean McCarron, an analyst with Mercury Research. Intel has about 83 percent of the market for PC processor market, compared with about 15 percent for rival AMD...
[March 18, 2004, 8:00]
AMD Bets On Cheap Chips
News Having Sempron could allow AMD to gain more design wins, because PC makers would have the option of using the money saved (by using a cheaper processor) to upgrade other features that may be more attractive," said Dean McCarron, an analyst with...
[June 21, 2004, 10:15]
Intel Celebrates 25 Years Of X86 Chips
News That's enough transistors to build about 3,500 8086s, said Dean McCarron, principal analyst at Mercury Research. Factoring in chips from other manufacturers, such as AMD, the x86 should hit the 2 billion mark by 2007, Intel predicts, using data...
[June 10, 2003, 11:06]
Intel Gets Hammered By AMD
News AMD currently claims 21 percent of the market, according to preliminary numbers from Mercury Research. All of those arguments are valid," said Dean McCarron, principal analyst at Mercury Research. AMD disclosed that the first of several forthcoming...
[April 27, 2001, 8:09]
Oracle-Siebel Merger Gets Mixed Reaction
News Some partners and customers of Siebel and Oracle, such as Mercury Interactive, applauded the move. Mercury uses Oracle's database technology but also serves customers of both Siebel and Oracle. He noted that as Oracle seeks to integrate Siebel's...
[September 13, 2005, 8:50]
AMD Market Share Rolls On
News Opteron now accounts for 22.1 percent of all x86 server processors shipped into the market, AMD announced on Tuesday, citing figures from Mercury Research. Mercury Research principal analyst Dean McCarron confirmed the figures were accurate.
[April 26, 2006, 12:35]
Time Running Out For Tardy AMD
News The overriding issue for AMD is whether they can stop the industry tide towards the (Intel Pentium II architecture)," said Mike Feibus, principal analyst for semiconductor watcher Mercury Research Inc.
[March 13, 1998, 9:14]
Intel Accelerates Pentium 4 Production
News When that demand did not materialize, Intel was left with excess production capacity, said Mike Feibus, principal analyst at Mercury Research. Mercury Research of Scottsdale, Arizona, predicted last quarter that Intel would ship about 14.4 million...
[January 16, 2001, 15:12]
Intel Feels Cool Response To Pentium 4
News At that rate, Intel will ship about 14 million chips for the year, according to Mercury Research. Mercury Research, which tracks PC processor sales, estimates Intel shipped about one million Pentium 4 chips in the first quarter of the year and will...
[June 1, 2001, 9:30]
Intel: Pentium 4 To Clock Up 1.8GHz
News Mercury Research statistics show Intel shipped about 1 million Pentium 4 chips in the first quarter of 2001. You have to wonder what's the least significant (clock speed) increase at these speeds," said Mike Feibus, principal analyst at Mercury...
[June 19, 2001, 8:46]
AMD Says It's Gaining Ground
News Another, earlier study by Mercury Research, though, showed that AMD's market share slipped from 21.6 percent of the worldwide market in the second quarter of 2001 to 15.6 percent during the second quarter of this year.
[September 20, 2002, 13:49]
Mercury To Ship Tuning Product
News Mercury has few competitors," said Andy Kyte, a research director at Gartner Group specialising in e-business. Israel-based software testing specialist Mercury Interactive is to launch a product to tune applications about to be deployed, the...
[May 28, 2002, 17:01]
