AMD Ryzen 5000 Zen 3 processors have yet to hit the market, but according to recent reports AMD was able to gain a significant market share in the x86 processor business in the third quarter of 2020 and is as strong as it was in 2007.
The new numbers from Mercury Research show that the manufacturer has recorded the highest CPU market shares in the desktop and server segments since 2013 and 2011, respectively.
It seems that the launch of the Ryzen 4000 APUs has generated a huge boost in sales. And it is that the market share has risen by 4.1% compared to Q2 2020. The market share could continue to improve in this quarter and the following thanks to the arrival of the new AMD Ryzen 5000 processors.
In addition to growing to a 22.4 percent share in the x86 processor market, AMD has increased its desktop processors by 0.9 percentage points compared to the second quarter of this year and has now reached 20.1 percent of the market.
AMD’s market share for notebooks increased from 19.9 to 20.2 percent. In the case of the servers around Epyc 7002, the company managed to gain from 5.8 to 6.6 percent.