Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Analysts predicted a 15 per cent drop in demand for processors.

In 2009, the demand for processors will be 15 percent lower than in 2008, reports IDG News with reference to the data analysis company IDC.
According to IDC, in the fourth quarter of 2008 reduced the supply of processors by 17 percent compared with the third quarter. In comparison with the rate one year ago, the demand for processors fell by 11.4 per cent.
The percentage of Intel processors on the market in the fourth quarter of 2008 amounted to 81,3 percent. Quarter earlier this figure was 80.8 per cent the year before - 76.7 percent.
The market share of AMD in the fourth quarter of 2008 decreased to 17.7 percent. In the third quarter, the company held 18.5 per cent of the market. A year ago, the share of AMD had 23.1 percent market processors.
The reason for falling sales of chips is to reduce the demand for PCs due to the economic crisis. According to IDC, in 2008, sales of PCs declined by 0.4 percent.
Earlier edition of The Wall Street Journal reported that the volume of total sales in the semiconductor industry in December 2008 amounted to 17.41 billion dollars. This 17 per cent less than in November and 22 per cent less than in December 2007.

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