Facts or fiction?

David Kanter (dkanter@realworldtech.com) on 1/11/11 wrote:
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>>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 think, at peak (2006Q1-2006Q3) AMD had over 30% of Overall server market share.

Few articles from that period:
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20060727/intel-amd-marketshare.htm
http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/processors/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=191600548
http://news.cnet.com/Intel-gains-server-share,-AMD-gets-notebook-boost/2100-1006_3-6130795.html?tag=html.alert
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20070131/amd-intel-shipments.htm


> 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.

Well, 4S is a small niche (less than 4% right now). 8S+ is not even a niche, it's a curiosity.

>
>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

Methinks, AMD 4S market share fell below 50% much earlier than you say, somewhere around 1H2007, i.e. back in Tulsa time frame.