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AMD Grabs One-Fourth Of Server Market, Gartner Says

Advanced Micro Devices saw a healthy jump in server processor market share in the first quarter, according to numbers released by Gartner this week.

Gartner reported that AMD, Sunnyvale, Calif., now holds 25.7 percent of the U.S. x86 server market. That's up from 9 percent in the same quarter one-year ago and 14.9 percent in the fourth quarter.

Jeffrey Hewitt, a research director at Gartner, said AMD has seen its most dramatic increases in the United States. "AMD has a greater vendor network in the U.S. as well as end users buying AMD-based servers."

AMD currently holds 15.3 percent of the worldwide server share.

Hewitt believes part of the jump in U.S. numbers may be attributed to Google, an Intel user that has also been using Opteron based servers in its data center, according to published reports. Hewitt said he believes Google is building its own servers and buying processors directly from AMD.

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