Thursday, February 6th 2020
AMD Desktop Processor Market Share Now at 18.3%: Mercury Research
Market intelligence firm Mercury Research published its findings on the x86 processor market towards the end of 2019, in which AMD has posted growth in all segments (not counting IoT or semi-custom). AMD held 18.3 percent of the desktop x86 processor market, according to the report. a 5-year high. The company's EPYC line of server processors face a more uphill battle against enterprises' entrenched brand loyalties to Intel. The company holds 4.5 percent of the server processor market, but growing 0.2 percent points versus the previous quarter, and 1.4 percentage points vs. the previous year. The last time AMD held such a market share in the server x86 processor market was in Q3-2013.
AMD's mobile processor market share may come as a surprise to some. According to Mercury Research, the company holds 16.2 percent of the mobile x86 processor market, which is almost as much as its desktop market. This is probably propelled by the popularity of AMD APUs and low-power CPUs in the cost-effective notebook market segments. AMD is now eyeing higher market segments with its Ryzen 4000 "Renoir" processors that make landfall this year. AMD is growing faster in the mobile space than desktop, with 1.5 percentage points growth in just Q4, and 4 percentage points year-over-year. AMD's mobile market share was this high back in Q2-2013. Mercury Research pins AMD's overall hold over the x86 market at 15.5%, averaged on all segments, minus semi-custom and IoT.
AMD's mobile processor market share may come as a surprise to some. According to Mercury Research, the company holds 16.2 percent of the mobile x86 processor market, which is almost as much as its desktop market. This is probably propelled by the popularity of AMD APUs and low-power CPUs in the cost-effective notebook market segments. AMD is now eyeing higher market segments with its Ryzen 4000 "Renoir" processors that make landfall this year. AMD is growing faster in the mobile space than desktop, with 1.5 percentage points growth in just Q4, and 4 percentage points year-over-year. AMD's mobile market share was this high back in Q2-2013. Mercury Research pins AMD's overall hold over the x86 market at 15.5%, averaged on all segments, minus semi-custom and IoT.
99 Comments on AMD Desktop Processor Market Share Now at 18.3%: Mercury Research
18.3% may seem poor,but it's alll relative.if it's 18% from e.g. 8% previously then it's very,very good.
I wouldn't worry about the percantages really,amd have a tremendous momentum,it's gonna produce results sooner or later.
If AMD's market share is "piss poor" then Intel has nothing to worry about. The thing is, they are definitely worried hence the massive price cuts on Cascade Lake X.
Share for 2018Q4 was 15.8% (according to the same methodology by Market Research).
Pre-Ryzen share (2016Q4) was 9.9%.
www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-vs-intel-cpu-market-share-q4-2019-epyc-and-ryzen-growth-decelerate-mobile-ryzen-up
But it was 18% in 2019Q3, so the last quarter of 2019 wasn't that great (despite good availability of Zen2 SoCs, holiday sales etc).
Both 2017Q4 and 2018Q4 were very good for AMD.
maybe it's the high cost of x570,but you can run 3000 on a320
well,who cares about market shares really.
that makes me think about the news that amd have been outselling intel by some enormous margins based on some online shop.how much of it is true?
There was never supply issues from TSMC. The demand was just that high. Now that demand has calmed down all Zen 2 SKU's are readily available.
You better worry about Intel not being able to produce their products. That's been going on for years now it seems like.
Backported? Lol we're are talking about AMD here. Your daddy Intel is the one doing the backporting. All of it actually. AMD actually gave users a new 12nm R5 1600. What is that? ForwardPorting?
AMD's growth is not slowing down. Hate to break it to you but they already have reserved extra 30k 7nm wafers from TSMC this year that will be allocated to consoles and mobile growth mostly. Plus 7nm+ EUV capacity for Zen3 and RDNA2. Once Zen3 launches and ongoing EPYC deployments complete AMD will get a boost yet again.
"Mercury Research captures all x86 server class processors in their server unit estimate, regardless of device (server, network or storage), whereas the estimated 1P [single-socket] and 2P [two-socket] TAM [Total Addressable Market] provided by IDC only includes traditional servers. "
And AMD bases its server share projections on IDC's forecasts.
What are you, Intel's CEO?
We can easily turn this thread into a flame nonsense, because some random mindless wants to entertain himself by watching us... with his free Intel CPU system...
Or maybe he/she wants a new one for free.
Losing AMD would be terrible for all of us as you know.
Server space is a different beast entirely. It’s not as simple as just swapping one desktop box for another, and many IT departments have a hard enough time with the latter.
If anything, it shows how depressive the situation is.
On GPU side of things AMD has about double those 18%.Yep. From Yahoo article green shill "from Asia" is referring to:
"AMD has a 7% share of the server processor market,"
That was as of Nov 19. With 1.2-ish growth from OP, that gets them to around 10% now, nothing unrealistic about crossing 10% mark in Q2.
Gaining 3-4% on Intel in some markets is significant. Give them 3 more years like this and look where that share is at. Suddenly a fifth turned into a third. That is a number that will put Intel's fabs on layback mode.
You have the cold numbers to look at now and you still think a tiny seller that sells more AMD CPUs than it does Intel will give you the big picture? It will give you the picture you want, but... really?
*They're smaller than Microcenter.
It's clearly awful to be in a duopoly, but they are doing okay.
Do you even think twice before posting ? Do you know how many people get jobs and are on job because AMD is in the market ? Do you think consoles are made by Intel ? Do you know how many 3rd party manufactures are AMD exclusive and if AMD were no more they would lose job just because of your stupid fantasy of Intel fanboyism ?
Past Consoles didnt run amd, but on Nvidia and IBM combination. If there there were no AMD then current generation would have also ran on Nvidia+IBM combination.
I really like to know how many manufacturer are AMD exclusive?? How many??