AMD’s market share has increased year-over-year and now stands at 16.9%. AMD continues to show the great strength acquired in recent years, and today we have new data from Mercury Research that allows us to confirm this. In particular, the company has managed to maintain a 16.9% market share in x86 processors, which is very good news for the company.
AMD Market ShareAs mentioned earlier, Mercury Research puts AMD’s market share at 16.9% of all processors, up 0.8% from the previous quarter, with a 7.3 percentage point increase over the same period last year being particularly noteworthy.
In fact, AMD is now at the level of 2006, when its K8 processors were quite strong compared to Intel. Exactly a couple of years later, the big decline began, resulting in Intel dominating the market until everything changed with the arrival of Ryzen.
These market share numbers, which by definition move much more progressively, are complemented by retail sales, where we already talked a few days ago about AMD being responsible for about 80% of total sales in the German Mindfactory store. Let’s now take a look at what we see at the two major US retailers, as reported by HotHardware:
- On Amazon.com, the top 10 processor sales are absolutely dominated by AMD, with 8 CPUs from AMD and 2 from Intel ranking 8th and 10th, respectively.
- On Newegg, you only see 3 Intel CPUs in the top 10, 5th, 8th, and 9th.
On Amazon, AMD processors occupy the first 6 places, while in 7th place is the Intel Core i3-10100F, in 8th place the Pentium Gold G5420, in 9th place the i5-11600K, and in 10th place, surprisingly, the i9-9900K.
At PCComponents, the first 3 places go to AMD, while the rest are split as follows: 5 for Intel and 2 for AMD. Tie.
So, considering this, the situation is quite favorable for AMD:
Sales in the “do-it-yourself” market (i.e. individual processors for assembling devices) are overwhelming and far ahead of Intel in countries like Germany.
In the server market, a market classically much more associated with Intel, the company is making great strides, as this study also shows (11.6% market share, +4.7% year-over-year as of 2007).
We’re also seeing more and more Ryzen laptops, which people don’t hold in low regard by any means, and obviously, we’re seeing more devices pre-assembled with their CPUs.
All of this is reflected in surveys and people’s perceptions and the company’s inexorably growing sales and its rise in the stock market. Since last month, they have already increased by 17.26%, which is 38.50% compared to 1 year ago or 1482.17% 5 years ago. The market capitalization is also at a record high of more than $130 billion, compared to $55 billion at the beginning of 2020 or the incredible minimum of $1 billion in 2016.
Since each study is based on different metrics, it must be measured by the trends it reveals rather than absolute numbers. Still, AMD has a long way to go to “sweep away” a large number of Intel CPUs in the world’s computers. That won’t be easy, especially if Intel Alder Lake gains momentum when it launches later this year.
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