Replies to post #20740 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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Subzero, Re: Be careful when you take statistics at face value without looking at the uderlying real numbers.

That was why I stated earlier that one cannot look at raw increases without first knowing the base number. Later on in the conversation, I looked up the specifics on the IDC webpage:

"In the segment for mobile PC processors, Intel grew share 2.8% to 88.1% and AMD lost 2.5% share to end at 10.6%."
http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jhtml?containerId=pr2003_08_14_103133

So in Q2, we know that AMD had about 10% of the mobile market. If we take a SWAG and assume that the market is about 20-25% of the overall PC processor market (~40M units/Q), then we're talking 8-10M units, and AMD would have sold one tenth of that, or very close to Petz' estimate. That's a far cry from the 11-19k range.