AMD no longer among the 20 largest chip makers

Posted on Monday, August 10 2015 @ 10:22 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

AMD once was a mighty rival to Intel but in recent years the firm is becoming increasingly irrelevant. The chip designer has seen its sales collapse and data from market research firm IHS reveals AMD slipped out of the top 20 of largest semiconductor vendors, as ranked by sales, in the first half of 2015.

AMD’s slip in the rankings was largely due to a particularly rough second quarter, when the company’s sales declined by 35% compared with the second quarter of 2014, IC Insights (Scottsdale, Ariz.) noted. The second quarter also marked the first time AMD’s sales slipped below $1 billion since 2003, IC Insights added.

AMD has been ranked among the top 20 chip suppliers in every calendar year since sometime prior to 2000, according to annual rankings issued by iSuppli Corp.(now part of IHS Inc.)

Source: EE Times

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