AMD has punched through the 10% marketshare level with shipments of its Opteron processors. It still has a ways to go to match the dominance of Intel server chips in sales, but there's always that lawsuit to possibly help matters out in the future...

The Sunnyvale, Calif., chip maker, citing fresh figures from Mercury Research Inc. in Cave Creek, Ariz., said it garnered just over 11 percent of x86 server shipments in the second quarter, versus about 7 percent in the first quarter.

This news article was written on July 26, 2005, quoting In-House.