According to Mercury Research (via Tom's Hardware), AMD gained 5.8 percent unit share in desktops, 3.8 percent in laptops, and 5.8 percent in servers. In terms of...
I think the majority of CPUs is sold through prebuilds, laptops and workstations. These tend to come with Intel as the default option. A lot of office pcs and laptops don’t even come with an i3 but rather a Celeron or Pentium.
I used to work there, their biggest problem internally is there’s no real process for issue resolution. When partners (like Microsoft) reported issues with our CPUs/APUs/GPUs (not the semi custom folks like XBox), there was a lot of finger pointing to everyone else, and shrugs as to who to talk to, while at Intel and NVidia, it was a very definitive process which helped a lot to track and resolve issues.
AMD’s CPUs have been blasting for years. Crazy to think they’re still only around 20% market share…
I think the majority of CPUs is sold through prebuilds, laptops and workstations. These tend to come with Intel as the default option. A lot of office pcs and laptops don’t even come with an i3 but rather a Celeron or Pentium.
I used to work there, their biggest problem internally is there’s no real process for issue resolution. When partners (like Microsoft) reported issues with our CPUs/APUs/GPUs (not the semi custom folks like XBox), there was a lot of finger pointing to everyone else, and shrugs as to who to talk to, while at Intel and NVidia, it was a very definitive process which helped a lot to track and resolve issues.