On Friday, chip tracking firm Mercury Research reported that AMD’s desktop CPU shipments reached a 28.7% share in Q3, up from 19.2% a year ago. Conversely, rival Intel saw its desktop CPU shipments for x86 processors drop 9.6 percentage points for 71.3% share of the market.

AMD continues to chip away at rival Intel's lead in desktop processor market share, with a not-insignificant 5.7% leap in the third quarter of 2024, according to the latest auditing figures by Mercury Research.

AMD’s desktop CPU sales surged in the last year, gaining nearly 10 percent market share (in units), according to AMD’s numbers, which appear in a report by well-known semiconductor industry watcher Mercury Research.

AMD’s desktop CPU market share jumped nearly 10 percent in the last year, an analyst reported Thursday, on the heels of AMD’s strong rollout of its latest desktop gaming CPU. Mercury Research, which tracks the market share of PC CPUs from AMD,