AMD's Fortunes Are Improving

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Ever since AMD launched third-generation Ryzen back in July, there’s been evidence that the company’s CPUs were selling extremely well in the PC component channel. One company, European retailer Mindfactory, has released regular data dumps with retail sales comparisons showing AMD spiking to 80-82 percent market share. Now, leaked information suggests the trend has continued into February, which aligns well with overall Newegg and Amazon data.
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Overall, AMD continues to perform extremely well in the desktop retail market. Eight of the top 10 best-selling CPUs at Amazon and seven out of 10 at Newegg are AMD. AMD currently holds about 15 percent of the overall PC market. Desktop is its strongest space; Mercury Research reported AMD’s market share as 17.7 percent as of Q4 2019. The reason stellar performances at Mindfactory aren’t translating into faster market share gain is that the retail CPU channel is only a fraction of the desktop market. Notebooks are also a much larger percentage of total PC shipments per year than desktops.