By: David Kanter (dkanter.delete@this.realworldtech.com), January 11, 2011 8:02 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
>My numbers of 65% market share is for two socket servers and above if I remember correct.
>Single socket servers numbers are not worth the paper they are printed on.
>
>For four socket servers and above AMD has ~100% market share.
>Intel just introduced a four socket board after having abandoned the market for
>the past few years, so maybe Intel has non-zero numbers now.
>
Sources please : ) Those numbers sound like utter bullshit. I know for a fact that IBM dominates the 8S+ market, and they are pretty much a Xeon only company. That means that AMD could not have had 100% market share.
I know that AMD had >50% of the 4S+ market at one point (prior to Tigerton and Nehalem), but I doubt they had >50% of the 2S market. Their marketshare has steeply declined to well under 50% for the 4S market with the introduction of Dunnington and Nehalem-EX though (especially the latter).
David
