Mobile processors increasingly dominating the CPU market

Microprocessors for personal computers have traditionally been the most advanced, powerful and state-of-the-art which is why there are only two companies nowadays capable of developing and delivering such chips on a regular basis. But thanks to the growing importance of hundreds of mobile and small form-factor platforms, hundreds of new chip designers emerge. While those chips cannot compete against processors by Advanced Micro Devices and Intel Corp., they just flood the market and in four years time central processing units for personal computers will represent only 10% share of the total available market (TAM) of microprocessors, according to In-Stat.