AMD Is Shattering Intel's Dominance in Style
Semiconductor manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) has been taking substantial chunks out of Intel's (NASDAQ: INTC) big CPU (central processing unit) market share pie quarter after quarter, and it repeated its strong showing in the third quarter of 2020 as well.
According to Mercury Research, AMD exited the quarter with 22.4% of the x86 CPU market including desktops, notebooks, and workstations -- an increase of 6.3 percentage points over the prior-year period. This was AMD's highest share of the overall CPU market since the final quarter of 2007. And what's most impressive about this effort is that the latest numbers don't include the impact of AMD's latest Ryzen 5000 processors that were launched after the quarter ended and are reportedly leaving Intel in the dust in terms of performance.
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