Intel is set to increase its lead over its competitors despite a fall in sales of its Atom chips intended for the moribund netbook business, Intel Corp in the Q3 managed to widen its control position in the international microprocessor market on the muscle of its corporate sales.

Intel in the Q3 made about 83.7 percent of worldwide microprocessor sales, an increase of 1.2% points compared to 82.5% it held in the Q2 of 2011, in line with the latest IHS iSuppli Computer Systems research from data and analysis source IHS.  Intel widened its lead over No. 2 microprocessor provider Advanced Micro Devices Inc. to 73.5 % points in the Q3, up from 72% in the Q2.

In the Q3 Intel’s performance was as result of a mix of negative and positive growths in regard to the transformative blow of media tablets on the PC market.

Net decrease for Netbooks

Following a successful double-digit sales growth in2008 through 2010, the netbook market assumed a sudden drop in 2011 as consumers bowed towards media PC tablets. Worldwide netbook sales are set to further plunge to 21.4 million pieces in 2011, losing 33.5% compared to 32 million units realized in 2010. Sales are estimated to continue to decline in the coming years and in fact, shipments will decline to 13.4 million by 2015.

This of course has contributed to downside for Intel, where most of netbook PCs in the market were powered by its Atom microprocessors. Intel confirmed its chipset and Atom microprocessor revenue in the Q3 decreased to 32% in contrast to the previous year.

Up in the Cloud

Nevertheless Intel saw a continued growth in the Q3 emerging from shipments of microprocessors that are used in data centers due to the rising demand for cloud computing services and the mobile markets.

Today, cloud computing business is on the route into the stratosphere as providers seek to provide services designed to serve smartphones tablet PCs, and other portable devices. Enterprise and consumer spending on the open segment of the cloud is estimated to experience growths of up to $110 billion in 2015, up compared to $23 billion in 2010.

Intel also confirmed that it gained from firm notebook sales coming from the corporate market, which remains to perform well despite amid challenging conditions in the consumer computer segment.

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Even with the down economy of most countries, netbooks are still soaring with a 103% growth in terms of shipments compared to the previous year. It seems that people who need computers tend to buy netbooks, which is no surprise. They’re a lot cheaper than notebooks and most consumers aren’t looking for power but something that will get the job done be it writing down notes in class or just checking email.An added bonus is that they are easy to carry with you to your favorite hotspot and less trouble to setup compared to a desktop since most are usable out of the box.

The report from where we got the numbers also say that revenue for netbooks are up 73% with notebook revenues down by 7%, which is not much but it will surely have an impact on what the manufacturers will focus on. It’s predicted that next year will bring a slighter uptick in growth of 19% for netbook shipments and a similar 16% growth for notebooks.

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HP experienced a 9% profit decline during this year’s first quarter, but the company clarifies that it wasn’t due to netbooks cannibalizing sales of their traditional notebook computers. Instead, HP CEO Mark Hurd blamed the global economic recession as one of the main culprits, as well as the broadening of available products that the company is offering. As a result of this profit decline, the company will enfore salary cuts on all Executive Council members and even its own Chief Executive, but this is done in order to let the company “emerge from this recession in a powerful position to create value for our customers, employees and shareholders over the long term and be in a better position to fund 2009 bonus programs,” according to a follow-up company statement regarding the matter. Read more notes on the company’s recent conference call over at CNET.

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The Eee PC 901 and Eee PC 4G-X currently occupies the first and second spot in terms of volume sales of PCs with prices ranging below $946.52. Combining the two machines total sales gives Asus a 70.5% of total PC sales in the country so far.

Meanwhile, Acer’s Aspire One only accounted for 9% and MSI got 8% share of the PC market sales. Lagging behind these four netbooks is HP’s Mini-Note.

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