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The Battle for Share 2000-2006

The start of the new century saw a significant shift in computing industry in general. The previous century had been dominated by IBM mainframes, and then the IBM PC. By 2000, Unix and its variants were establishing themselves in a big way on RISC based machines. The Internet dom com bubble was bursting, but mainstream businesses were beginning to establish themselves on the Internet. Many variants of the Intel x86 architecture had established themselves as well. Everyone was fighting for a piece of the pie.

 

Year

Qtr

AMD

ARM

DEC/Alpha HP Intel BM PowerPC

 

2000

1Q

  Jazelle*   PA-8600    

2Q

           

3Q

           

4Q

        Pentium 4 PowerPC G3 (750)

 

2001

1Q

           

2Q

        Itanium  

3Q

      PA-8700 (IBM Made)    

4Q

           

 

2002

1Q

  ARMv6* (ARM11*)     Xeon,Pentium 4 Mobile IBM PowerPC G5 (970), Power5

2Q

           

3Q

        Itanium 2 IBM PowerPC G3e (760)

4Q

    G4 (21364)      

 

2003

1Q

           

2Q

           

3Q

           

4Q

           

 

2004

1Q

           

2Q

      PA-8800 (IBM Made)    

3Q

           

4Q

           

 

2005

1Q

           

2Q

           

3Q

           

4Q

           

 

2006

1Q

      PA-8900    

2Q

           

3Q

           

4Q

           

 

Year

Qtr

MIPS

Motorola

NS SPARC    

2000

1Q

  PowerPC G4 (7400)        

2Q

           

3Q

           

4Q

           

 

2001

1Q

           

2Q

MIPS IV* (R14000)          

3Q

           

4Q

           

 

2002

1Q

           

2Q

           

3Q

           

4Q

MIPS IV* (R16000)          

 

 

2003

1Q

           

2Q

           

3Q

           

4Q

           

 

2004

1Q

           

2Q

           

3Q

           

4Q

           

 

2005

1Q

           

2Q

           

3Q

           

4Q

           

 

2006

1Q

           

2Q

           

3Q

           

4Q

           

* Year when specifications were released

 

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