Mercury's numbers do show an overall uptick for Intel in terms of total x86 chip market share. However, that's a consequence of cratering sales of AMD's SoCs, specifically the chips in gaming consoles. Mercury doesn't break down the numbers, butThe loss of console sales for AMD is largely inevitable given the cyclical nature of game consoles and the fact that we're nearer the end of the current generation of consoles than the beginning.
In laptops, AMD is up to 20.3% for the latest quarter, up from 16.5% for the same quarter last year. Finally, in servers, AMD improved from 18.6% to 24.1%, again from Q2 2023 to Q2 2024. Incidentally, if you're wondering how Arm chips fit into all this, Mercury says that sales of PCs powered by Arm CPUs are actually falling. If that sounds odd given all the hullabaloo around, apparently sales of Chromebooks are also falling and Q2 2024 is too early for volumes of those Snap' X laptops to have begun scaling.Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.
Anywho, if the overall picture doesn't look great for Intel, it's worth noting that it still holds an absolutely dominant position in desktops, laptops and servers, owning the heavy majority of market share in all three segments.