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FRAMINGHAM, MA – Third-quarter worldwide PC microprocessor revenues went up 12.2% sequentially and 16.1% year-over-year, to $10.7 billion, says IDC.
On a shipment basis, the PC microprocessor market rose 6.7% compared to the second quarter and increased 5.2% compared to the third quarter of 2010.
“The average selling price that brand vendors pay for PC microprocessors rose more than 5% in the third quarter of 2011,” said Shane Rau, director of semiconductors: personal computing research at IDC. “And it was the eighth quarter in a row that ASPs rose. Clearly, Intel's Sandy Bridge and AMD's Fusion microprocessors with integrated graphic processors are rising in each company's product stack and driving the price increase. At the same time, low-end processors, notably Intel's Atom processors, are declining as a percentage of the unit mix.”
Processors with IGP rose to 73% of total PC processor shipment volume in the third quarter, the firm notes.
For the quarter, Intel earned 80.2% overall worldwide shipment market share, a gain of 0.9 percentage point sequentially. Meanwhile, AMD earned 19.7%, a loss of 0.7 percentage point compared to the second quarter. VIA Technologies earned 0.1%, a loss of 0.2 percentage point.
Intel earned 82.3% share in the mobile PC processor segment, a loss of 2.1 percentage points. AMD finished with 17.6%, a gain of 2.4%, and VIA earned 0.1%.
In the PC server/workstation processor segment, Intel finished with 95.1% market share, a gain of 0.6 percentage point, and AMD earned 4.9%, a loss of 0.6 percentage point.
In the desktop PC processor segment, Intel earned 75.8%, a gain of 4.8 percentage points, and AMD earned 24.1%, a loss of 4.8 percentage points.
ANAHEIM, CA -- Multi-Fineline Electronix reported fiscal fourth-quarter net income fell 61% to $2.4 million on $2 million in restructuring costs and slower sales.
KEMPELE, FINLAND – PKC Group, a provider of contract assembly and wire harnesses, reported third-quarter profits rose 17.6 million euros, up 22% year-over-year.
Consolidated net sales in the September quarter grew 37.5% year-over-year to 308.2 million euros.
Net sales generated by the electronics business decreased 13.7% to 17.7 million euros. The segment generated an operating profit of 1.7 million euros, down 48.5% year-over-year, equivalent to 9.8% of the segment’s net sales.
“The fall in demand for the design and manufacturing services of PKC’s electronics business during the first nine months of the year resulted in a weakening of the whole segment’s turnover and profit in comparison with the previous year. However, profitability clearly improved during the third quarter from the level at the start of the year,” said Harri Suutari, president and CEO.
PKC said demand from the industrial sector rose in the first half but started to fall during the third quarter in both Europe and China. The weakening was a result of economic uncertainty in Europe and a reduction in wind power investments in China. New regulations introduced in China concerning wind power have temporarily reduced investments, the company said. Also, PKC’s electronics business was hurt by a change in product strategy by a telecommunications customer.
PKC also announced it has closed its acquisition of the AEES companies.
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