Intel Controls 80%+ of CPU Market Share

According to Mercury Research, Intel strongly increased its market share during the last quarter, pushing AMD back to its position prior 2006 and the introduction of its popular Opteron. Intel controls more than 80% of the computer CPU market; and this increase was not only seen for desktop CPUs but for all type of CPUs. Intel' share raised up by 8% for desktop CPU segment, about 4% for notebook CPU, and 7% for server CPU.
Performance wise, Intel revamped its entire CPU line last year, bringing the successful Core architecture to the market, and AMD is not expected to be able to bring equivalent CPUs for desktop and notebook markets before 6 months of time. AMD is currently aggressively pricing its CPUs to compensate the lower performance level of its offer; however, Intel high end Core 2 Duo CPUs remain expensive due to the lack of competition for this segment.