AMD Reaches Highest Overall x86 Chip Market Share Since 2013

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  • watzupken
    I feel AMD's gained market share at an accelerated pace over the last few years because Intel stumbled and isn't nimble enough to pick themselves up. I think they grossly underestimated AMD's come back, and gave themselves too much time to rectify their 10nm issues. The next few years will likely see a lot of competition between the 2 as Intel claimed that their 10nm issue is fixed and a flurry of 10nm products to be released starting 2021. Though I still feel they will continue to bleed market share because Intel tend not to compete on price, which AMD easily takes advantage of. Let's see.
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  • Kamen Rider Blade
    I don't think their 10nm is quite as "Fixed" as they proclaim it to be.

    And inside leaks state 7nm is a even worse debacle than 10nm.
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  • Gam3r01
    It makes me happy to see AMD doing well for themselves again, competition is good and prevents the market from getting stale (again).
    Now if only AMD had the revenue to manufacture in house like intel does, imagine the progress.
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  • PapaCrazy
    watzupken said:
    I feel AMD's gained market share at an accelerated pace over the last few years because Intel stumbled and isn't nimble enough to pick themselves up. I think they grossly underestimated AMD's come back, and gave themselves too much time to rectify their 10nm issues. The next few years will likely see a lot of competition between the 2 as Intel claimed that their 10nm issue is fixed and a flurry of 10nm products to be released starting 2021. Though I still feel they will continue to bleed market share because Intel tend not to compete on price, which AMD easily takes advantage of. Let's see.

    Intel's failure defines the current market. Hard to tell who is running to AMD, and who is running away from Intel. Unfortunately, Intel's failures also affected x86 market share as a whole. With MS experimenting with Windows ARM and Apple completely shifting over, Intel created an x86 crisis that will impact AMD too. The next few years will be interesting to say the least.
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  • escksu
    This is the reality. Intel still has 80% of the end user market and almost 95% of the server market.

    Amd needs to continue its momentum and chip away intel's share. A few years of superior product alone isnt enough to overtake intel. Its a marathon.
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  • Soaptrail
    Kamen Rider Blade said:
    I don't think their 10nm is quite as "Fixed" as they proclaim it to be.

    And inside leaks state 7nm is a even worse debacle than 10nm.

    It is always worse than what we hear so Intel is not fixed and has systemic issues that money cannot solve otherwise they would not be in this position.
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  • derekullo
    "However, because AMD lumps consumer processors and GPUs into the same revenue segment, it was impossible to determine if its increased revenue came at the expense of Intel."

    I think it's safe to say AMD did not steal any revenue from Nvidia.
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  • Jimbojan
    AMD's share gain is down in the noise. Just wait until Intel's 10 nm Tiger Lake CPU and Xe graphic come in volume, and see how much market share AMD will gain. AMD is actually competing with its 7nm chip with Intel's 14 nm chip so far. Intel is still owns the market, clearly it cannot hold over forever, now that it declared 10 nm has arrived both in CPU and graphic, let's see what the battle field is looking like. Intel said it is increasing its capex to increase its 10 nm production in light of the 7nm delay. Just wait for a few more days, Intel will say something about it.
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  • jimmysmitty
    PapaCrazy said:
    Intel's failure defines the current market. Hard to tell who is running to AMD, and who is running away from Intel. Unfortunately, Intel's failures also affected x86 market share as a whole. With MS experimenting with Windows ARM and Apple completely shifting over, Intel created an x86 crisis that will impact AMD too. The next few years will be interesting to say the least.

    To be fair AMD caused it by pushing AMD64 instead of us going to IA64.

    Either way though it wont be as bad as people think. Apple is still a marginal market share and has very little bearing on the overall PC market. I also wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people get upset since now all their software will be useless.

    I am not sure we will see major changes even with MS doing ARM. They are doing it because its smart to do but people hate and resist change, its why AMD64 won so easily over IA64, so it may be interesting but we may not see any real change to the consumer desktop market apart from AMD having more market share.
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  • Jimbojan
    derekullo said:
    "However, because AMD lumps consumer processors and GPUs into the same revenue segment, it was impossible to determine if its increased revenue came at the expense of Intel."

    I think it's safe to say AMD did not steal any revenue from Nvidia.
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