According to market researchers, AMD increased its market share for server CPUs in the first quarter by 1.8 percentage points to 8.9 percent and conquered it from market leader Intel. A year ago, AMD was still at 5.1 percent. Nothing has changed with desktop CPUs, with notebook CPUs, AMD has lost slightly in the last few months Mercury Research determined again and made its report available to the media.
Intel is grappling with Zen at Epyc
According to the surveys, the growth in the server sector was the largest for AMD within a quarter since 2006, in which AMD put Intel under pressure with the Opteron 64. However, AMD is still very far from the high of 22 percent market share for server CPUs from these days. Nevertheless, the second largest x86 CPU manufacturer has recently caught up again. AMD owes this to the Epyc processors, which recently started the new generation with Milan based on the Zen 3 architecture, but have already contributed to sales. Intel is also likely to have already delivered various processors of the Ice Lake-SP introduced a few weeks ago, but at least not yet been able to stop the upswing at AMD.
Q1/2021 change
to Q4/2020 change
compared to previous year Desktop 19.3% – 0.0 PP + 0, 7 PP Notebook 18.0% – 1.0 PP + 0.9 PP Server 8.9% + 1.8 PP + 3.8 PP Total 20.7% – 1.0 PP + 6.0 PP Data from Mercury Research, PP = percentage points
In notebooks, AMD is losing shares again
While AMD again achieved 19.3 percent for desktop processors and thus only improved slightly compared to the previous year, the company lost for notebooks -Crisps. The share fell again slightly from 19 percent at the end of 2020 to 18 percent now. In the third quarter of 2020, AMD had cleared the hurdle of 20 percent.
It is not surprising that AMD is losing something again in notebooks, because Intel offers the competitor the strongest in this segment forehead. The delayed but significantly improved 10 nm chips from Intel were introduced in this segment first with Ice Lake and then with Tiger Lake. With desktop PCs and servers, however, the 10 nm generation is only just beginning.
Today, with the Tiger Lake-H45, Intel has released another offensive for notebooks that From Intel's point of view, AMD's Ryzen 5000 Mobile clearly beats it in selected games.