"CPU sales are strongly tied to the computer industry, so when the computer industry is up CPU sales go up as well. CPU sales are still going strong and the latest market share results for the industry are now available.

ISuppli figures for Q3 2008 are now available according to InformationWeek. Intel is the big winner in the CPU market now holding a massive 80.4% share of the global revenue in the CPU industry. Intel's market share is up 1.7% from the same quarter in 2007. AMD isn’t faring as well as Intel in the market and iSuppli reports that AMD's market share declined by 1.8% for the quarter to 12.1%.

In Q3 2007, AMD held 13.9% of the market. Despite the year-over-year drop in AMD's market share, AMD did grow its share for Q3 2008 compared to Q2 2008 by a mere 0.1%. Intel's short-term gain was nearly as scant with a mere 0.3% gain. According to iSuppli, the smaller CPU vendors are feeling the brunt of the global economy crunch and are finding it very hard to compete in the CPU market.

Matthew Wilkins, an analyst form iSuppli, said in a statement, "Intel's growth is largely due to the strength of its product portfolio in the notebook segment. In the third quarter, Intel achieved a double-positive, producing share growth on both a sequential and year-over basis, while main rival AMD grew in the short term only."

More Notebooks shipped in Q3 than desktop systems for the first time ever. This significant milestone was a definite help to Intel who dominates the notebook market in both CPUs and GPUs. NVIDIA is challengingPC market will grow by 12.5% in 2008 compared to 2007. Intel in the GPU market though with its latest 9400M GPU. ISuppli forecasts that the overall"