AMD Takes More Of Intel's Lunch Money In Desktop And Server CPU Share

There have been some epic fights over the years, such as Sugar Ray Leonard clashing with Thomas Hearns, Muhammad Ali knocking out George Foreman, and Buster Douglas defeating Mike Tyson in a shocking upset, to name a few. One of the longest-running grudge matches, however, is between AMD and Intel. It's too early to declare AMD the modern-day Buster Douglas of tech, but it is getting in some impressive jabs, having knocked loose some more desktop and server CPU share from its heavyweight rival.

Source: Mercury Research

According to McCarron's audit, AMD's desktop CPU shipments were nearly flat, which is actually far better than what's typical this time of the year.

"AMD's strong desktop showing in a typically steeply down quarter resulted in a relatively large on-quarter and on-year share increase for the first quarter. For AMD the strength in desktop was ...