AMD expected to hold 30% of the CPU market by the end of the year

Recent reports indicate AMD is on track to take 30% of the global CPU market share by the time 2018 comes to an end. Throughout the year news of AMD’s success, especially at Intel’s expense, has been abundant, and in Q4 2018 it looks like all that positive momentum for the red team will result in a share just shy of a third of the market. It’s a familiar tale, but one that industry insiders are telling once again. The story of AMD’s meteoric rise has been almost entirely off the back of the Zen architecture, which makes up its Ryzen and Epyc processor, but has also been heavily attributed to Intel’s 10nm woes holding it back and letting AMD get its foot in the door. Intel has been a little flustered (to say the least) as of late, and its strong desktop dominance in the CPU market has been severely threatened by the multi-threaded chops of AMD's Ryzen CPUs. However, it’s mostly the all-important server market that Intel and AMD are fighting over, in which AMD’s Epyc chips are slowly making headway.