AMD falls out of iSupply’s top ten semiconductor list

Posted November 30, 2007 at 04:21 PM by Ed Arnold

Section: Computers, Hardware

AMD, once the darling of the PC processor market, has fallen on hard times. Last month, AMD posted a huge loss of nearly $400 million in the third quarter last year. That loss along with managerial and demand problems have caused the chip makers to fall out of iSupply’s top ten chip makers list.

iSupply says AMD’s market share in the semiconductor industry will climb to 14.2% by the end of the fourth quarter, which is below where AMD was last year. AMD rival Intel is currently sitting on nearly 80% of the semiconductor market according to iSupply. Analysts for iSupply are predicting that Intel will generate $7.24 billion in revenue this quarter while AMD generates only $1.3 billion.

Sony is the biggest movement in the industry with it’s revenue expected to increase by almost 60% this year. One imagines that most of this increase is due to Sony’s Cell processor built into the PS3.

Read [PC World]