Intel increase chip market

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It is set to increase its share of a growing global chip market this year to 12.2 percent, market researcher Gartner said Friday. Intel made the gains at Advanced Micro Devices' expense, Gartner said. The overall global market is expected to grow 2.9 percent from last year to $270.3 billion, the research company said.

Intel's revenue grew more than twice as fast as the market average, boosted by strong gains in laptop chip sales. Last year, Intel's global market share was 11.6 percent. Among top vendors, Toshiba's revenue was expected to surge 28 percent in U.S. dollars, surpassing Texas Instruments, STMicroelectronics, and Infineon. Of those three, only STM was able to slightly raise its revenue, Gartner said.

"Semiconductor vendors need to watch the performance of their end customers even closer as a major part of the industry becomes increasingly tied to consumer spending patterns," Andrew Norwood, research vice president at Gartner, said in statement.

Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested more than US$6 billion in nearly 1,000 companies in more than 40 countries. In that time, about 180 portfolio companies have been acquired by other companies and another 155 have gone public on various exchanges around the world. In 2006, Intel Capital invested about US$1.07 billion in 163 deals with approximately 60 percent of funds (excluding Clearwire) invested outside the United States.

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