AMD Snatches More Server CPU Share As Intel Rallies In Desktop Market

There was some moving and shaking in the CPU market share breakdown between AMD and Intel, as well as Arm's continued encroachment into territories typically dominated by x86 silicon. The two things that stand out the most are AMD's upward swing in the lucrative server space, and Intel posting its first overall x86 gain since 2025 amid an impressive surge on the desktop.

According to Mercury Research, which sent us the breakdown over email, the third quarter PC CPU market declined to a bigger degree than expected, in the wake of an equally unexpected better second quarter for CPU shipments. According to the market research firm, this is solely the result of a downturn in mobile CPUs, which not coincidentally was the same segment that overperformed in the previous quarter.

"Both Intel and AMDindicated in their earnings results that there was a rapidsoftening in PC demand late in the third...

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