Intel sales up, AMD's down

Guardian writes:

"It's a pretty safe bet that if you were asked to name the leading chip manufacturer, you'd guess right: it's Intel. If you were asked for the top three in this $274 billion market, you'd probably get the other two wrong. They are Samsung Electronics and Toshiba. Hard luck if you said Texas Instruments: this once mighty chip giant is now in fourth place with sales worth $11.8bn, according to Gartner's latest list of The Top 10 Worldwide Semiconductor Vendors by Revenue Estimates.

Intel is top by a wide margin, with sales increasing by 10.7% to $33.8bn. Toshiba ($11.8bn) has just jumped into third place with 20.8% growth. It benefited from increased sales of the Sony PlayStation 3."

[decapitator]

How did the PS3 help help Toshiba out ? I thought if anything, it hurt them on the format war front ?

[no_more_heroes]

remember they developed the cell with Sony and IBM.

[decapitator]

Ah yes yes. Of course. Thanks.

[sonarus]

lol sweet irony.

[fenderputty]

that's what I was thinking the whole time. lol

Who woulda thunk it?

[Harry190]

competitors one day,allies the other.

[decapitator]

Its so Ironic my friend, but you are definitely right.

[deeznuts]

As the Corleones once said, this is strictly business. Not personal.

[eagle21]

Playstation 3 is about to BOOM baby BOOM!!!

[TheEndzor]

Playstation 3 works on so many levels

[PR0NE]

correction my friend: nothing personal, any way don corleone sends his regards, that reminds me, i can't wait to get to play mafia 2, it stands there just beside mgs4, maybe a little bit less...

[deeznuts]

"Michael Corleone: [to Sonny] It's not personal, Sonny. It's strictly business."

But hey, what's a technicality amongst family eh?

[supremacy]

what most of you here have to remember is that sony sold its share of the cell technology to toshiba a while ago for almost a one billion if i can remember correctly this actually took place right after toshiba call it quits with its money drainer of a format HD-DVD, in which they than loss about 800 mil or so of that battle.

sony just simply sold the tech as a result of finding ways to cut prices on its hardware manufacturing costs, so that made toshiba an almost exclusive manufacture to sony and its ps3, in the end they both benefit.

i mean history has reapeted itself, i remember it was sony and phillips the two companies behind the DVD format toshiba came along and if i can remember correctly sony did just what it did with the cell, and sold its shares to toshiba and decided to focus on bluray instead. so... sony does have a nag for doing these things.

ofcourse IBM is also still involve but being that sony sold their shares to toshiba, toshiba now owns most of the cell shares.

this is why toshiba and ibm are both hard at work on them 45nm chips, getting everything ready for the end of this year when its expected to be release and implemented into newer line ps3's which means cheaper ps3's coming soon, and who knows maybe even a redesign or a slim.