Advanced Micro Devices needs to more than double its share of the microprocessor market to survive, according to a brief filed by the company’s lawyers in its antitrust lawsuit against Intel. At the end of 2007, AMD had 13 percent of the processor market, “less than half of what it requires to operate long-term as a sustainable business,” the brief said, explaining that Intel’s alleged efforts to shut the company out of the processor business had largely succeeded.
AMD Must Double Processor Market Share to Survive
May 6, 2008