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AMD surpassed Intels market share in desktop processors
Read it well, desktop, and not notebook. But yeah that something very interesting is happing you've been able to witness for the past three years now.
AMD surpassed Intel in terms of market share desktop processors, the data however is limited and based on published results from PassMark. PassMark Software's benchmarking results for the first quarter of 2021 show that AMD took a 50.8% share of the global desktop CPU market, leaving Intel at 49.2%.
The last time the AMD had taken the lead was in the first quarter of 2006, although that only lasted a quarter.
When you combine all results on all segments, Intel has a clear lead, but certainly, the trend has shifted. 62% for Intel, and 38% for AMD.
Things are different in the notebook segment, Intel here still leads with a huge 84% share, AMD thus at 16%. The difference is even more pronounced in the server segment, where Intel has 98.6%, while AMD takes the remaining 1.4%. However, with EPYC, that number might change fast as well.
Of course, the numbers are limited by demographic, as they are solely based on PassMark entries. Would you look at the gamer side of things and compare with Steam results, for example, the difference would be just that, very different.
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#5874341 Posted on: 01/05/2021 07:08 PM
Luckily, Intel isn't short on R&D after the years of profits they claimed from locking out AMD of oem sales and AMD's bulldozer mis-step.
Hopefully whatever they got out of Jim Keller and whatever they get out of Raja Koduri on the GPU-side will keep them competitive.
I honestly though this was never possible. I think this is only going to get worse for intel. In few years time situation will be otherway around compared to 2010's.
Luckily, Intel isn't short on R&D after the years of profits they claimed from locking out AMD of oem sales and AMD's bulldozer mis-step.
Hopefully whatever they got out of Jim Keller and whatever they get out of Raja Koduri on the GPU-side will keep them competitive.
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#5874344 Posted on: 01/05/2021 07:15 PM
Three, ARM based cpu's are getting more and more competitive - e.g. the apple one, or the latest big multi-core server ones are right up there with anything in x86. It is quite possible they will start to take over the server market, and push up from chromebooks into the laptop market too.
A two player market is on the horizon. A little competition between AMD and Intel will spurn better pricing and a urge to bring new technology to market. It is a win - win situation the way I see it.
Three, ARM based cpu's are getting more and more competitive - e.g. the apple one, or the latest big multi-core server ones are right up there with anything in x86. It is quite possible they will start to take over the server market, and push up from chromebooks into the laptop market too.
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#5874351 Posted on: 01/05/2021 07:27 PM
"This" is misleading, its only correct in that amd has surpassed market sales for this cycle, not share.
I honestly though this was never possible. I think this is only going to get worse for intel. In few years time situation will be otherway around compared to 2010's.
"This" is misleading, its only correct in that amd has surpassed market sales for this cycle, not share.
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#5874360 Posted on: 01/05/2021 07:57 PM
How many general PC users use passmark? Or even know what it is for that matter
It is from a benchmark but it's a lot of data collected over a long period of time. I'm sure it's correlated to actual sales numbers. That being said, this doesn't mean AMD actually has a higher market share, but, they're on their way to it.
How many general PC users use passmark? Or even know what it is for that matter
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Intel has had its giant share of troubles trying to get below the 14nm node, but on the other hand, they still can manufacture more than AMD can get out of TSMC, which is supplying too many other customers as well. The situation would look quite a bit different if GF actually had stayed in the race and maintained a competitive edge. Considering how TSMC is making historical profits, it's quite bizarre how GlobalFoundries so casually decided to drop out of the frontier business and settle for the nameless sector. Imagine how it would be if GF had a fully functional 7nm process facility and AMD basically got most of its production capability. AMD might still have TSMC make the GPUs, for example, but Zen CPUs would have a vastly supply and the important mobile APUs could also be manufactured in sufficient quantities to satisfy the various laptop makers.
But, alas, no. GF wasn't interested in doing business.