On November 5th, AMD launched the Ryzen 5000, a desktop CPU that AMD claims to be the world’s best gaming CPU. The Ryzen 5000 is expected to become a game changer, but it is said that the AMD market share is already expanding to its maximum for 15 years.
According to market research firm Mercury Research, it occupied 22.4% of the market share in the third quarter within x86 CPUs. This is an increase of 4.1% from the previous quarter and 6.3% from the same period last year, the highest since the fourth quarter of 2007.
According to the report, AMD showed strong performance in other fields as well, and desktop x86 CPU share excluding IoT was 20.1%, up 0.9% from the previous quarter and 2.1% from the same period last year. The market share increase in this area is for 12 consecutive quarters, with 20.1% being the highest since the fourth quarter of 2013. In addition, the share of x86 CPU for notebooks excluding the Internet of Things was 20.2%, up 0.3% from the previous quarter and 5.5% from the same period last year. This is also an increase in market share for 12 consecutive quarters. The highest market share in the past broke the record once more at 19.9% in the second quarter of 202.
The share of AMD client x86 CPUs excluding IoT is also 20.2%. This is an increase of 0.5% from the previous quarter and 4.3% from the same period last year. It is also the highest number since the second quarter of 2011. These figures are a record set before the Ryzen 5000 series entered the market, and there is also a forecast that AMD will increase its market share to 25% by taking the Ryzen 5000 series as a good wind in 2021.
Meanwhile, Intel plans to release the 11th-generation Core Processor Rocket Lake in the first quarter of 2021. Related information can be found here .