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AMD now owns 38.1% of the overall x86 CPU market according to new research but actually lost ground in desktop PCs

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(Image credit: Future) AMD now owns fully 38.1% of overall market revenues for x86 CPUs according to new data from Mercury Research (via HotHardware ). That's up from 35.4% for the previous quarter . But AMD's desktop CPU market share actually fell. AMD is doing particularly well in the server market, where it won 46.2% of revenues and 33.2% of unit sales. That means AMD server CPUs, on average, are selling for quite a bit more than Intel CPUs. Those figures are up by around 3-4% on the previous quarter. Desktop CPUs represent the lone segment where AMD is slipping a little. For the latest quarter, Mercury has AMD pegged at 37.6% of revenues and 33.2% of unit sales. That's down from 42.5% and 36.4%, respectively, for the previous quarter, which were all time highs for AMD. Intel is, of course, AMD's only direct competitor in specifically the x86 CPU market, as opposed to the broader CPU market, which includes the likes of Arm and RISC-V chips. And desktop aside, it all looks like pretty good news for AMD.…

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