WORLDTECHIntel reclaims overall CPU market share for the first time since 2025
What happened
In total, the industry supplied 68.93 million x86 CPUs (the general-purpose processor at the centre of a computer), Jon Peddie Research reports . AMD and Intel shipped 60.8 million client CPUs and 8.13 million data center (a building full of computers that runs online services) processors during the quarter. Intel is a semiconductor and electrical company based in Santa Clara. AMD is an electrical and semiconductor company based in Sunnyvale, and its products and services include computer hardware and graphics processing units.
AMD continues to gain server CPU market share amid skyrocketing shipments of data center processors as sales of client CPUs drop in the third quarter, says Mercury Research. Shipments of x86 CPUs declined quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year in the third quarter as demand for client processors dropped sharply due to high component prices, while server CPU unit sales grew by a whopping 20% year-over-year, according to the latest report from Mercury Research.
Intel regained overall CPU market share from AMD for the first time since Q2 2025, largely due to surprisingly strong performance in desktop PCs. Meanwhile, AMD continued to set new records in the mobile and server CPU segments, the report claims.