AMD Gains Further x86 Processor Market Share
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Undying
Im sure it will increase even more with zen3 this year. Intel cant do nothing to stop this.
sverek
Finally starting to see laptops with Ryzen 5 CPU in them. Very refreshing coming from last year where all laptops I saw had Intel CPUs.
Hopefully lower price of AMD counterparts will attract more vendors and consumers.
warlord
And here we hear Intel fanboys talking about shady tactics of AMD who sells knowledge to China or they are out of vulnerabilities hunting because they are ignored. Jealously much? 🙄
anticupidon
I want a Ryzen ThinkPad with improved Vega or Navi as GPU.
It will be a dream to have it running Linux and be my main portable workstation.
As soon as I can afford will chip in some money in a piggy bank for this year's Black Friday.
Kaarme
Those percentages are still actually quite low and the point increases very modest. I guess it's no lie Intel can sell everything it manages to manufacture.
schmidtbag
It's worth pointing out that even though AMD's sales have gone up, so have Intel's. So the real takeaway here is that AMD is still managing to out-pace Intel in sales, and that is impressive.
All that being said, I'm actually a bit surprised they haven't had a greater impact on the server market. That is where AMD is totally unrivaled.
tunejunky
...but you do know the lead times on server market right? IT manager's requests go up the foodchain to the beancounters... the biggest advantage AMD has right now in the server market, not tech related, is the carbon footprint.
if you're American i can see this as a blindspot as the propaganda of denial is red hot here.
but the rest of the world has carbon levels to get down to and a higher performing, lower power server infrastructure is tailor made for them.
Denial
They still have a problem with lack of SKUs in the server space - AMD processors are cheaper but I can't find system configurations that suit my needs that are cheaper than Intel equivalents - Intel partners have SKU's at like every single price point and use-case, AMD has gaps.
On top of that there are still weird issues with support and mixed operations, which keep people in the same ecosystem -- small example but you still can't live migrate a VM from an Intel to an AMD system and vice versa.
schmidtbag
Out of curiosity, what exactly are you looking for that AMD doesn't have? Unless you're only willing to accept Zen2 chips, they have SKUs going from 8 to 64 cores, and some models that support dual-socket configurations.
Denial
You're talking about chips, I'm talking about server SKUs.
If I go to my Dell/CDW/HP/Whomever partner and tell them I want a quote for x,y, z project, give them the scope, budget, etc - more often then not they return with an Intel based server. If I tell them to configure it out with AMD it's often 20-30% more in price because they simply don't have server SKUs with the storage/memory/whatever requirements that fit the scope of my project. There's also times where they do have it but the Intel SKU is still cheaper because these companies aren't paying Intel ARK pricing, which is typically what people on these forums use for price comparisons to AMD equivalent processors.
schmidtbag
Aaah I didn't know you meant the SKU of the entire server. Yeah, I can see that being a problem. I'm assuming you're going for full racks of servers, because otherwise I'm sure you could just build your own to suit your needs.
Gomez Addams
We get a fair amount of stuff from Thinkmate.com, including the dev box I recently posted about. They have an entire page of EPYC servers on their site. They also resell boxes from ASUS, Supermicro, and others.
DeskStar
They've definitely gained more than my "share!!". I've AMD'd myself out this year.
And please AMD keep it coming!!!
DeskStar
Not sure what's going on here, but fanboy or not one has to admit when a company is shown/given their own ass..... Hence Intel has only had the chance to react in the last couple of years.
Now Intel is in the market for letting their products go at a severe loss compared to the competition. All because of their sales models of the past. They only have themselves to blame.
And how is it that there is a shortage of hardware when NO ONE is buying it.....!?!?
jaggerwild
Yep, exactly what I thought when I looked at it, but IT people do not buy new every year. And they need time to sell the new Tech to the bean counters as said, I assume soon they will show substantial growth....
Humanoid_1
Though I have not yet had the chance to read the articles, from headlines it sounds like some of Intel's upcoming chips are going to perform really well; is this so or are we not certain yet?
Gomez Addams
It depends on your definition of the phrase, "out-pace." A market share of 18% in desktop CPUs is a distant second place. What that means is Intel is still selling more than four times as many CPUs as AMD is. However, AMD is gaining ground on Intel, with an increase in share of 2.4% on the year. I really don't think the phrase "out-pace" fits this situation. AMD is gaining share but is still far behind.
I am just glad to see AMD's share has become significant enough to have had a significant effect on desktop CPU prices.
schmidtbag
Fair enough, I wasn't being very clear in my phrasing.
Loophole35
My next laptop will have a 4800h. I’ve talked the last three friends that were shopping for a notebook into Ryzen.
sykozis
I just added 1 more CPU sale to AMD's count for the current quarter......lol.
