AMD's Fortunes Are Improving

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https://www.extremetech.com/computing/28...ents-in-q4

When AMD released its Q4 revenue figures for 2018, it said it would wait for additional data on market share to come in from the analyst firms that track this sort of information. Now, Mercury Research has released data on AMD’s overall performance throughout the quarter. It’s all good news for AMD, though Mercury didn’t find that the company hit its goal of midrange single-digit market share for 2018. More on that in a moment.
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These numbers show strong growth for AMD in multiple markets, emphasizing that the company’s financial improvement wasn’t simply driven by crypto sales. Intel obviously remains the dominant player in all three spaces, but the market is clearly responding to Ryzen’s value proposition across the entire computing space. Increased competition and better product options are always a good thing for consumers, regardless of what kind of hardware they’re looking to buy.