AMD makes significant gains against Intel, which has struggled all year amid layoffs and a CPU voltage bug.
Team Red is on a roll: AMD’s share of the desktop CPU market has increased by nearly 10 percentage points from a year ago, according to new stats.
On Friday, chip tracking firm Mercury Research reported that AMD’s desktop CPU shipments reached a 28.7% share in Q3, up from 19.2% a year ago.
Conversely, rival Intel saw its desktop CPU shipments for x86 processors drop 9.6 percentage points for 71.3% share of the market.
The numbers show that Intel still dominates the desktop CPU arena. But its grip on the market is loosening following a tough year when the company has been laying off 15% of its workforce to control costs amid declining demand for its chips.
