AMD now commands 10% of the entire x86 CPU market

AMD now holds ten percent of the x86 processor market. After a successful year dueling with Intel for processor dominance, the red team has now captured an important milestone and consolidated its presence in the market. Desktop, server, and mobile market share combined now makes up one tenth of computers everywhere. There’s no denying that AMD looks strong in the Ryzen desktop CPU department. AMD’s second-gen Ryzen processors have been sapping sales away from Intel’s competing Coffee Lake processors since April and market analysis from Mercury Research indicates that desktop CPU share has increased from 12.2% in Q2 2018 to 13% in Q3. There’s still a long way to go before AMD switches places with Intel at the top, but the company is moving in the right direction. As for the mobile market there have been mixed reports all year as to the success of AMD’s mobile division. Market analysts at Susquehanna told its clients back in June that Ryzen Mobile was a ‘no-show’, although its numbers differ notably from Mercury’s. The latest research shows sales of notebooks fitted with the red team’s best lightweight silicon are up, creeping to 9.1% of the market since this time last year when it was at just 6%.