Mercury Research: AMD climbs to nearly 30% market share in desktop processors 115 comments
One man’s joy is another man’s sorrow. This saying can currently be easily applied to the desktop processor sector. Because while Intel faces a class action lawsuit due to unstable processors, AMD is gaining significant market share with Ryzen.
New Q3 2024 x86 processor market share figures come from Mercury Research. The company has been reporting AMD stock regularly for years. Since AMD and Intel alone share the market, the competitors’ shares are also clear.
AMD is growing in all segments
The statistics examine the shares of the desktop, mobile and server segments. AMD increased in all three areas, at least in terms of number of units.
AMD market share for x86 processors in Q3 2024 (Image: Mercury Research)
Sharp rise in desktop computer sales
The increase is particularly significant for desktop processors. While AMD had a market share of less than 20% a year earlier, it was already 23% in the second quarter of 2024. But in the third quarter of 2024 the situation increased sharply again, so that AMD now holds a market share of 28.7% of sales. According to Tom’s Hardware, this is AMD’s highest share in at least 15 years. Sales shares were also increased.
AMD and Intel’s market share in desktop processors (Image: Mercury Research/Tom’s Hardware)
In servers, AMD continued to fall below 25 percent market share, with 24.2 percent. This is why the company itself prefers to announce the share of sales, since it now stands at 33.9 percent. However, the improvements compared to the previous year are small.
AMD was also able to increase its share of laptop (mobile) processor sales, but sales were slightly lower than the previous year, suggesting lower average prices.
Without console chips, not a quarter of the total market
For the entire customer segment (desktop and laptop), Mercury Research now estimates that AMD accounts for 23.9% of sales and 21.7% of sales. With the server market, AMD accounts for 24 percent of sales and 26.5 percent of “total CPU” sales. However, the “Total CPU” category does not take into account the areas of semi-custom and IoT. AMD processors for PlayStation and Xbox are falling through the cracks.
Topics: AMD CPU Economics Source: Mercury Research (via Tom’s Hardware)
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