Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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AMD gains market share:

http://asia.cnet.com/news/systems/0,39037054,39199776,00.htm

Those figures include sales of chips for Microsoft's Xbox, an exclusive contract for Intel. (Like other research companies, Mercury sometimes will revise market share figures after an initial release of data, so the market share figures do not match previously published figures from Mercury, but the numbers generally only vary about a tenth of a percentage point.)

But there is a crucial difference between then and now, Mercury's Dean McCarron noted. In 2001, AMD was losing money, and it was on track to losing more money than it had made over its history. Now it's profitable. "In the overall scheme of things, that is a good sign," he said.