… This means AMD increased its market share by 1.54x in just one year -- a substantial improvement for any company. Gains were split between desktop and laptops, but not by as much we would've seen in the early 2000s, when AMD was almost entirely a desktop and server processor company. …
… AMD channel market share based on European retailer Mindshare.de The desktop market share gains are great for AMD -- any pickup is good for the company -- but ultimately they won't be sufficient to achieve the company's long-term goals. …
… AMD began to compete more effectively on desktop several years ago and has been steadily gaining market share in that space ever since. …
… At the same time, Nvidia retains a hard lock on the add-in board market for desktops, with approximately two-thirds of total market share. And while these gains are significant, it's also worth considering why they didn't drive any particular "pop" in AMD's overall financial figures for Q2. …
… Despite AMD's overall gains, it has continued to lose market share in both desktop and notebook to Intel, while returning the favor in the server market where its Epyc CPUs have been making major inroads into Intel's turf for some time now. …
… AMD's earnings have made it clear Ryzen delivered substantial revenue improvements, but revenue gains and market share gains don't always cleanly track each other, and Ryzen commands far better prices than Piledriver ever did. …
… Nothing in Swan's remarks refuted or addressed the recent roadmap leak , which predicts no Intel 10nm desktop CPUs until at least 2021-2022. It is possible that Intel will skip 10nm on desktop and wait for 7nm before launching new parts. …
… PC sales fell by more than GPU sales -4 percent versus -0.3 percent and shipments of desktop graphics cards rose by 7 percent. Keep in mind that these comparisons include integrated graphics market share and Nvidia has none. …
… One unexpected result from this volatility is it's allowed AMD to claw market share away from Intel. According to IDC's report Opens in a new window via HotHardware, AMD now has over 30% of the x86 market. While Intel still has more than twice that market share, it lost 5.6% over the past year. …
… Further, the floating point FP scheduler in Steamroller continues to be shared between two CPU modules cores . …