Global PC server shipments and revenues rise in the Q2

Worldwide PC server shipments and revenues rose in Q2 of by 3.6 per cent and 6.2 per cent respectively, compared to the first quarter of 2010, according to the latest PC processor study from research firm International Data Corporation (IDC).

The average sequential change in unit shipments between a calendar year's first quarter and its second quarter is an increase of 1.6 per cent. For revenues, the average sequential change is a decrease of -2.8 per cent. So, these increases represent better performance than usual for a second calendar quarter, said IDC.

"Such a sequential increase in PC processor shipments alone would have been enough to conclude that the first half was strong for the market," said Shane Rau, director of Semiconductors: Personal Computing research at IDC.

"However, a modest rise in revenues, too, points directly to a rise in average selling prices. System makers bought more and higher-priced PC processors in 2Q10 than in 1Q10. Digging a little deeper into the numbers shows that they bought more mobile processors and more server processors, while desktop processors remained flat," he added.

Looking at market performance by PC form factor, mobile PC processor unit shipments rose 6.5 per cent quarter over quarter, PC server processors rose 6.1 per cent quarter over quarter, and desktop PC processors declined -0.1 per cent quarter over quarter.

For the overall worldwide PC microprocessor market in 2Q10, Intel earned 80.7 per cent unit market share, a loss of 0.3 per cent, while AMD earned 19.0 per cent, a gain of 0.2 per cent, and VIA Technologies earned 0.3 per cent.