Worldwide PC processor unit shipments declined at the steepest rate since 1996, according to the latest figures from International Data Corp. (Framingham, Mass.). IDC forecasts the declines will continue through the first half of 2009.
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Unit sales of CPUs were down 17 percent and revenue fell 18 percent to $6.78 billion in the last quarter of 2008 compared to the previous quarter. For the full year PC processors sales grew ten percent in units but just 0.9 percent in revenues to $30.8 billion, IDC said.
"After hinting at a decline last September, the market fell off a cliff in October and November," said Shane Rau, director of PC semiconductors research at IDC in a prepared statement.
Intel's Atom processor continued to be one of the few bright spots in the market. Without Atom, worldwide PC processor unit shipments would have declined 21.7 percent on a quarterly basis, IDC said.
Intel eked out a 1.1 percent unit market share gain to take 81.9 percent of the CPU market in the quarter. Archrival Advanced Micro Devices slid a little less than a point to 17.7 percent, and VIA Technologies earned 0.4 percent to make up the rest.
For the year as a whole, Intel earned 2.9 percent and AMD lost 3.1 percent in CPU market share by units. Intel's biggest gains were in notebooks where it took 4.8 percent in unit market share to 87.1 percent while AMD lost 5.3 percent to fall to 12.1 percent.
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