Intel in 2017: still the leader, but for how long?

By Matt Hanson

At the beginning of 2017, Intel was the undisputed king when it came to desktop and laptop processors, but now, at the end of the year, while it still retains its leadership of the market, its position isn’t quite as unassailable as it used to be.

In this article, we’ll evaluate how Intel performed in 2017, and this report card will cover all the highs and lows that this past year has brought for the CPU goliath.

We’ll also look at how the events of 2017 could determine Intel’s success in 2018 and beyond…

Sitting pretty

The beginning of 2017 saw Intel in an incredibly strong position, posting a first quarter revenue of $14.8 billion – up from $13.7 billion it managed during the first financial quarter of 2016.

Intel’s market dominance was also extremely impressive, with Passmark releasing information about the split between Intel and AMD processors used by people running Passmark’s range of benchmarks that showed Intel having 79.3% of the market compared to AMD’s 20.6%.

While these results were confined to Windows machines that ran the benchmarks, it was still convincing evidence of Intel’s strength.

So, revenue was up and market share was still …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components