Or should we say Ryzes? AMD gained market share in the x86-cpu sector in the third quarter of 2018. A new report from Mercury Research states that the company now owns 13 percent of the desktop market. 

With an average of 10.6 percent across the server , desktop and notebook sectors, growth was 1.5 percentage points relative to the previous quarter and 3.1 percentage points year-over-year. The manufacturer is particularly strong in the segment of what we all love so much, the desktop PCs, where the market share increased from 12.2 to 13.0 percent. In the third quarter of 2017, the value was still 10.9 percent.

Also growing is the share of notebook processors that AMD put in 10.9 percent of the cases in the past quarter, according to the study. The growth to the previous quarter is therefore 2.1 percentage points, compared to the previous year, AMD even increases the share by 4.1 percentage points. Responsible according to AMD and the analysts is the growing use of Ryzen processors.

AMD Desktop processor Market Share rises to 13%