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In 2023, Dell accounted for about 19% of Intel's total revenues, Lenovo accounted for 11% of total
revenues, and HP Inc. accounted for 10% of total revenues.[1] As of August 2021, the US Department
of Defense is another large customer for Intel.[13][14][15][16]
Market share[edit]
According to IDC, while Intel enjoyed the biggest market share in both the overall worldwide PC
microprocessor market (73.3%) and the mobile PC microprocessor (80.4%) in the second quarter of
2011, the numbers decreased by 1.5% and 1.9% compared to the first quarter of 2011. [17][18]
Intel's market share decreased significantly in the enthusiast market as of 2019, [19] and they have
faced delays for their 10 nm products. According to former Intel CEO Bob Swan, the delay was
caused by the company's overly aggressive strategy for moving to its next node. [20]
Major competitors[edit]
Intel's competitors in PC chipsets included AMD, VIA Technologies, Silicon Integrated Systems,
and Nvidia. Intel's competitors in networking include NXP Semiconductors, Infineon,[needs
update]
Broadcom Limited, Marvell Technology Group and Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, and
competitors in flash memory included Spansion, Samsung Electronics, Qimonda, Kioxia,
STMicroelectronics, Micron, and SK Hynix.
The only major competitor in the x86 processor market is AMD, with which Intel has had full cross-
licensing agreements since 1976: each partner can use the other's patented technological
innovations without charge after a certain time.[23] However, the cross-licensing agreement is
canceled in the event of an AMD bankruptcy or takeover.[24]
Some smaller competitors, such as VIA Technologies, produce low-power x86 processors for small
factor computers and portable equipment. However, the advent of such mobile computing devices,
in particular, smartphones, has in recent years led to a decline in PC sales.[25] Since over 95% of the
world's smartphones currently use processors cores designed by Arm, using the Arm instruction set,
Arm has become a major competitor for Intel's processor market. Arm is also planning to make
attempts at setting foot into the PC and server market, with Ampere and IBM each individually
designing CPUs for servers and supercomputers.[26] The only other major competitor in processor
instruction sets is RISC-V, which is an open source CPU instruction set. The major Chinese phone
and telecommunications manufacturer Huawei has released chips based on the RISC-V instruction
set due to US sanctions.[27]
Intel has been involved in several disputes regarding the violation of antitrust laws, which are noted
below.