It is now known that these were not and are not easy weeks and months for Intel. New figures on CPU market shares now underline the company’s downward trend. Meanwhile, competitor AMD is selling more and more processors.
With all the negative headlines that have recently been read about chip manufacturer Intel, it was easy to get the impression that the company was on the verge of collapse. First, Raptor Lake drew attention to itself with instability, then thousands of jobs were to be cut, the construction of chip factories planned in Germany was put on hold and finally the US government even let it be known that a merger with AMD would be necessary to save the company be open to it.
Now the market research company Mercury Research (via Tom’s Hardware) published the quarterly figures on the market shares of the two manufacturers. This shows how Intel is struggling with losses compared to its competitor AMD in all areas. Overall, Team Blue is still more than comfortably in the lead.
Intel suffered the biggest loss in terms of market share in the area of desktop CPUs. Here the company lost 5.7 percent compared to the previous quarter. At 71.3 percent, Intel’s market share is lower than ever. AMD achieved 28.7 percent and reached a new all-time high. Compared to the values from a year ago, Intel lost a full 9.5 percent. However, as the chip manufacturer says, this short-term decline is only due to a customer inventory correction. Accordingly, it can be expected that the market share will increase again in the next quarter. Intel is also losing ground in the area of processors for mobile devices such as laptops.
The market share fell by 2 points compared to the previous quarter from 79.7 to 77.7 percent. Compared to 2023, this is a loss of 2.8 percent. Ultimately, a similar picture emerges when it comes to servers. Here, Intel only lost 0.1 percent compared to Q2 2024, but a clear trend can still be seen. Here, Team Blue now has a total market share of 75.8 percent, while AMD has a corresponding 24.2 percent. However, in Q3 2024, AMD earned more than Intel on data center CPUs for the first time ever.
As mentioned, Intel’s lead is still large. Nevertheless, a clear development can be seen over the past eight years. Even with its new Core Ultra CPUs, the manufacturer doesn’t seem to have really made a big splash.
Although the processors are significantly more efficient than their predecessors, they are also less powerful in some areas, such as video games. AMD, on the other hand, scores points primarily with its comparatively inexpensive Epyc chips for servers and, last but not least, with its consumer CPUs with 3D V-Cache.
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