AMD Falls Farther Back From Intel In Rankings

Seattle (dbTechno) - ISuppli has released their preliminary worldwide semiconductors rankings on Wednesday, and it was not good news for AMD as they have fallen out of the top 10 on the list, while Intel continues to grow.

Intel has been dominating the chip-maker market and according to reports AMD is not going to be in the top 10 list at all.

The semiconductor market share for Intel is expected to rise 12.5% in 2007. AMD is expected to drop by an alarming 23%. It will also see revenue declines from $7.5 billion down to $5.8 billion which is a huge drop for a one-year period. AMD broke into the top 10 in 2006 as it took the eight-spot for the first time ever. It is now expected to have dropped to number 11.

Samsung is going to remain the world’s second-largest chipmaker with 7.4% of the market. Toshiba is in third place, while Texas Instruments stands at number four. Sony is going to take the former position of AMD with a 57% increase due to the PS3 cell chip sales.

iSuppli’s Dale Ford stated that “Intel successfully defended much of the market share that it won from AMD in the first quarter in the PC microprocessor segment due to the success of its line of dual and quad-core chips.”

Ford stated that AMD did have the advantage with its dual-core microprocessors, but it allowed Intel to gain again.