22 PCWorld DECEMBER 2020NEWS AMD’S NOTEBOOK PC SHARE SOARS
The respective market share for AMD and Intel, across various categories in the third quarter of 2020.
(Source: Mercury Research)the past year. It now totals 22.4 percent, its
highest point since 2007, according to Mercury.
With nearly all of the X86 processors sold into
the PC market coming from either AMD or Intel, a
gain by one rival is a loss for the other. Intel’s share
in the notebook PC market sank to 79.8 percent,
down 5.5 percentage points from a year ago.
Intel’s overall share now stands at 77.6 percent—
still an enormously commanding lead.
Those numbers will shift once again as
Intel’s partners begin shipping notebooks with
its Tiger Lake processors. Intel said in its recent
conference call that demand for Tiger Lake (go.pcworld.com/tgdm) has essentially doubled.
But AMD, too, has another processor waiting
in the wings: the Zen 3-based Ryzen 9, or the
Ryzen 5000 (go.pcworld.com/z3r9).
In the desktop, at least, AMD’s rise has been
slightly blunted. AMD’s share grew only 2.1
percentage points over the past year, to 20.1
percent. Intel’s share stands at 79.9 percent.
If the market-share numbers don’t round
to 100 percent exactly, there’s a reason: Via
Technologies, whose own legacy X86 chips
still make up a barely tangible 0.1 percent
share of the desktop PC CPU market.Q3 2020
Share (%)
Q2 2020
Share (%)
Q3 2019
Share (%)
Share change (percentage
points) Q2 2020 to Q3 2020
Share change (percentage
points) Q3 2019 to Q3 2020
Overall Intel 77.6 81.7 83.9 -4.1 -6.3
AMD 22.4 18.3 16 4.1 6.3
Via 0 0 0 0 0
Total 100 100 99.9
Mobile Intel 79.8 80.1 85.3 -0.3 -5.5
AMD 20.2 19.9 14.7 0.3 5.5
Via 0 0 0
Total 100 100 100
Desktop Intel 79.9 80.7 81.9 -0.9 -2.1
AMD 20.1 19.2 18 0.9 2.1
Via 0.1 0.1 0.1 0 0
Total 100 100 100
Server Intel 93.4 80.1 85.3 -0.3 -5.5
AMD 6.6 19.9 14.7 0.3 5.5
Via 0 0 0
Total 100 100 100INTEL & AMD MARKET SHARE