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AMD claims its largest share of the overall x86 CPU market in 14 years

According to Mercury Research, AMD's x86 processor share is close to its all-time high. AMD's share of the overall x86 CPU market climbed to 22.5% in the second quarter of this year. Intel still claims the lion's share of the x86 space at 77.5%, but that number is down a tick over four percentage points from the same quarter a year ago. AMD has not been this competitive since the Athlon 64 days. Not by coincidence, AMD's share of the x86 CPU market peaked in the fourth quarter of 2006, when it accounted for 25.3%, or a quarter of the x86 sector. And the last time its share of the overall CPU space was as high as it is now, was nearly 14 years ago, in the fourth quarter of 2007. Case in point, at places like Amazon and Newegg, AMD leads Intel in their respective lists of best selling desktop processors. And over at Mindfactory, a popular retailer in Germany, AMD accounted for 76% of desktop CPUs sold last month, compared to 24% for Intel. Outside of the consumer desktop category, Mercury Research says "AMD set a new record for both server CPU units and revenues." This means AMD is making big strides in the lucrative data center market, where its Epyc processors have been chipping at away at Intel's Xeon footprint.

Izvor: Interneti