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AMD’s market share in notebook processors has reached a new all-time high, according to new market research, thanks to the powerful mobile Ryzen 4000 processors that AMD launched in March. The figures were compiled by Mercury Research for the third quarter of 2020 and released earlier this week.
AMD’s notebook market share, excluding processors sold in the Internet of Things (IoT) market, has reached an all-time high of 20.2 percent, up 5.5 percentage points last year.
AMD’s overall market share (including products for the IoT market and also system-on-chip processors, or SoCs) increased 4.1 percentage points in the third quarter and 6.3 percentage points overall during the year past. It now totals 22.4 percent, its highest point since 2007, according to Mercury.
Credit: IDG Tiger Lake demand With nearly every X86 processor sold in the PC market coming from AMD or Intel, a gain for one rival is a loss for the other. Intel’s share of the laptop market fell to 79.8 percent, 5.5 percentage points less than a year ago. Intel’s overall share is now 77.6 percent, which is still a hugely dominant advantage.
Those numbers will change once again as Intel partners begin shipping laptops with their Tiger Lake processors. Intel said in its recent conference call that demand for Tiger Lake has essentially doubled. But AMD also has another processor waiting behind the scenes: the Zen 3-based Ryzen 9 or the Ryzen 5000.
On the desktop, at least, AMD’s rise has eased a bit. AMD’s share grew just 2.1 percentage points over the past year, to 20.1%. Intel’s share stands at 79.9 percent.
If the market share figures aren’t exactly rounded to 100%, there’s a reason: Via Technologies, whose own legacy X86 chips still account for a barely tangible 0.1% share of the desktop PC CPU market.
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