nearly a third of the market for central processing units while British chip technology firm ARM’s rise in the PC market slowed in the fourth quarter of 2022, according to an analyst report.
has grabbed share away from Intel, which still remains the largest player in the market for what are known as86 processors, which work with popular operating systems like Microsoft’s Windows. In the fourth quarter, Intel had 68.7% market share for86 processors versus AMD’s 31.3%, which was up from 28.5% a year earlier, according to Mercury Research.
The results came amid what Mercury Research president Dean McCarron said in the report was the worst downturn in the PC chip market since the 1980s and possibly the worst in the industry’s history. After snapping up PCs and laptops for working from home during the pandemic, consumers and businesses have slowed their purchases amid rising inflation and economic uncertainty.But the slowdown has played out differently for AMD and Intel.
Mercury said ARM PC chips, led by Apple’s in-house chips but also joined by Qualcomm’s recent PC chips for Windows machines, now have 13.3% share of the market for PC chips, down from 14.6% a quarter earlier but still up from 10.3% share a year ago.