Intel vs AMD: AMD is winning ground

Although Intel has experienced some financial bottlenecks recently, they still dominate the global market of processors, holding around 70% of the market share for desktop PC, mobile devices, and data center processors. Nevertheless, the role of AMD on the market continues to increase as well.

In particular, according to recent market analysis by Mercury Research, AMD is making major strides in the area of data center processors, while Intel still dominates in the client area. AMD’s data center processors gain ground against Intel’s offers, with this area being the most rapidly developing one of AMD. For instance, this year AMD won 5.6% of the market share relative to Intel, with general tendency of AMD winning around 1% each quarter.

Nevertheless, Intel continues to dominate in other areas with 75,9% market share. In addition to that, Intel is more dominating when it comes to sales volumes, while AMD’s main source of revenues are its expensive AI accelerators, with both companies having earned almost the same $3 billion in the second quarter. According to AMD, its MI300 accelerators have earned $1 billion faster than anything else in the company’s history.

The growth was a bit slower in the client sector, with desktop and mobile devices chips part growing up to 21.1% this years compared to Intel’s 78.9%.

In the second quarter AMD lost 1% of the desktop processor market part, although their sales in this segment still grew by 3.6%. When it comes to laptops, AMD controls 20.3% of the market share, which grew by 3.8% since last year.