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.

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