The latest x86 marketshare data from research firm Mercury Research indicates that Intel isĀ at the first spot with 80.6 percent, 0.3 percent more than the same period the year before, while AMD held 18.8 percent, a gain of 0.5 percent.
Mercury Research calculated that CPU shipments went up 5% year-over-year in the third quarter. The market research firm also said that the average selling price for PC CPUs was $107