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The cpu market is changing. nobody is really sure where it is going.
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While the microprocessor market traditionally has been dominated by sales of Intel and AMD X86 products to the PC market, the year 2010 was marked by the rise of a new platform: the media tablet, led by Apple's iPad which employed a non-X86 device at its heart designed by Apple and manufactured by Samsung Electronics.
IHS said it believes unit shipments of media tablets soared to 17.4 million in 2010, up from zero in 2009, with levels expected to grow to more than 240 million units in 2015.
The year 2010 was a period of major transitions in the microprocessor market, with suppliers facing a raft of changes, ranging from the new competitive threat posed by media tablets to the robust post-recession recovery, to the technology revolution spurred by the rise of graphics-enabled microprocessors (GEMs),â said Matthew Wilkins, principal analyst of compute platforms for IHS.
Meanwhile, PC microprocessor technology underwent a fundamental change in 2010, with GEMs becoming a major portion of total sales in 2010. GEMs represented more than one-third of total microprocessor shipments for notebook and desktop PCs alike in 2010. Both Intel and AMD announced GEM products targeting the mainstream notebook and desktop segments in 2010, as they raced with each other to keep on top of this new technology trend.
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