AMD gains ground on Intel

Sales rise at the cip giant's expense.

AMD has gained some ground on Intel during the first quarter of this year, according market researchers Isuppli.

The Isuppli report shows that AMD's share of global microprocessor market revenue in the first quarter rose by 2.2 per cent compared to the same time last year. It now holds 13 per cent of the market.

Chipzilla saw its sales fall by 0.7 per cent and the outfit has 79.7 per cent share of the market. Nothing that would give Intel executives too much of a panic-attack, but it could be indicative of how successful AMD's stronger PC microprocessor product portfolio has become.

Matthew Wilkins, principal analyst at Isuppli, said that AMD had started doing well on the desktop.

Any news of market growth would be welcome to AMD, which has been suffering financially and restructuring its way out of debt recently.