AMD continues to gain market share. In the lucrative server market, the processor specialist snatched 33.9 percent of sales. The chipmaker is also doing well in other sectors.
AMD posted nice results in the third quarter of 2024. According to Mercury, 33.9 percent of revenue in the server market went to AMD this quarter, following a 2.7 percentage point increase in revenue compared to the same quarter a year earlier. Shares are up so slightly compared to the second quarter (0.1 percentage point) and 0.9 percentage point compared to a year earlier.
Momentum
Those figures show that AMD’s momentum in the server market is still significant. Although Intel dominates the segment, AMD can charm customers with the price-performance ratio of its Epyc processors. A more streamlined lineup helps, as does its partnership with manufacturer TSMC. That ensures that AMD’s chips are currently at the very forefront of technological capabilities. The latest chips continue that trend.
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Looking not at revenue share, but in units shipped, we see an increase to 24.2 percent from 23.3 percent last year. That figure is slightly lower, implying that the more expensive high-end Epyc processors are doing well.
Progress in all areas
The chip designer is also making its presence felt in the other market segments. Market share in the desktop market increased 9.6 percentage points compared to last year to 27.3 percent, looked at on a revenue basis. In chips shipped, the share is even slightly higher at 28.7 percent.
In the laptop market, Intel has a bigger lead. There AMD sold 22.3 percent of chips, accounting for 19.2 percent of the distributed cake. That, too, is a slight increase. Overall, AMD now holds 24 percent of the processor market, by units sold, and 26.5 percent by revenue.
AMD thus further benefits from Intel’s difficult period of cementing its presence in the CPU market. The manufacturer is still a challenger, but a big one.