According to recent Mercury Research numbers, global CPU shipments are recovering, and the market has grown 13.8 percent sequentially in Q1, but year-on-year it's still down 2.9 percent.

Although all CPU makers saw their shipment volumes go up, AMD's market share has gone down. AMD's share dropped from 20.9 to 18.7 percent compared to Q1, while Intel's share went up to 80.5 percent from 78.2 during the same period.

A year ago, in Q2 2008, Intel's share was 80.0 percent, while AMD had 18.8 percent.