Abstract
This IDC study examines the product shipments and market share of processor
vendors in terms of the channel to the processor vendor' s customer during the
calendar year 2006. This document segments overall vendor unit shipments and
shares by three sales channels: direct to the OEM, indirect channel (through
distributors), and direct to the end user (self-builders). Splits by channel
for desktop PC processors, mobile PC, and PC server processors are also
included. Vendors of non-PC processors (i.e., RISC processors for Unix-based
workstations and servers) are not covered in this study. Vendors of processors
that are used in non-PC applications such as game consoles (Intel' s Pentium III
processors for Xbox) and thin clients (AMD' s Geode processors) are not covered
in this study.
"OEMs consumed more than 60% of processors in 2006, a number that we expect to
increase as more of AMD' s business shifts to OEMs and more mobile PC sales
serve to take away business from the distributors that serve system builders
that concentrate on the desktop and server spaces." - Shane Rau, program
director, IDC' s Semiconductors: Personal Computing research program
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