Q2 2009 Chip Sales Increase, Thanks to Atom
In November of last year, Intel’s Atom processor was noted as being largely responsible for record growth in the processor market. While no more records are being broken, the processor market continues its upward climb — to the tune of 10.1 percent in the second quarter of this year — and once again, Intel’s Atom chip is the reason why.
“The percentage of Intel’s revenue earned in Asia/Pacific grew from 51 percent in 1Q09 to 55 percent in 2009,” Shane Rau, director of Semiconductors: Personal Computing research at IDC, noted in a statement. “This fact, combined with the significant sequential ‘snap-back’ rise in Intel’s overall processor shipments — particularly Atom shipments — while AMD’s overall shipments were about flat, indicate that the PC processor market didn’t recover in 2Q09.”
The growth from Q1 to Q2, notes IDC, is mostly attributable to manufacturers replenishing their chip inventory rather than increased consumer demand for PCs. Predicting that most OEMs have now balanced their inventories, IDC says going forward we’re more likely to see what the actual demand really is.
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