AMD Desktop CPU Market Share 18.6%
AMD Mobility CPU Market Share 16.4%
AMD Server CPU Market Share 17.6%
AMD Overall x86 CPU Market Share 31.3%
What's causing the bump from 16%-18% share to 31% in the avgs?
Are they including game consoles in the x86 market share?
The overall CPU Market Share number also includes both IoT and SoC numbers which are not included in the other numbers and in which Intel's shipments have declined substantially while AMDs SoC products (including game consoles) are making up a large number. This is what's responsible for the disparity.
They also added that the data was distributed with a helpful clarifying note the news articles are mostly omitting:
* Please keep in mind that due to the inventory corrections taking place, that the statistics and share movements reported here in the past few quarters -- and likely for the first half of 2023 -- are more reflective of the suppliers differing in the depth and timing of their inventory corrections, rather than indicating sales-out share of the PC market, which is something we probably won't know with any accuracy until late in 2023. *
I think AMD originally pitched it for laptop makers since it was leaked in 2020: https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-mobile-apus-for-2021-2022-de...
But I suspect they rejected it because they don't care about IGP performance, just as they rejected Intel's "Iris" Broadwell CPUs and the hybrid amd/intel chip.
I love my Synology and love that they are going AMD. While some argue that having video transcoding on a NAS is wrong, it’s also very handy, but the AMD options I’ve seen aren’t a patch on quicksync.
That tech is unbelievably good and might be the only bit of Intel I like.
I can easily see datacenters with these things in the future.
The higher end x86 NASes are advertised closer to "home datacentre in a box" solutions that offer VM/container runtimes and third party software markets.
So far, x86 is significantly more user friendly and performant for these use cases: the "desktop-ish performance for desktop-ish prices" range doesn't really have many hardware options (Apple certainly won't sell theirs to OEMs, and the Snapdragon 8c is a bit on the low end, and the real data centre ARM many-core monsters are too big); and the software offerings aren't quite as user friendly either.
Also, if 30% of x86 market share corresponds to ~20% of "big processor" market share, that means that non-x86 cores have about 30% market share.
European companies are discovering the same thing, too. They have embraced ARM and RISC-V very strongly.
Unless Google chromebooks up their game, or the pc disappears completely I don't really see arm taking over.
No, seriously. Most peoples' computing needs and desires are satisfied with a phone, they don't actually need a laptop let alone a desktop.
It's not that x86 is losing market share, it's that Personal Computers are changing from the desktop/laptop form factor to the smartphone form factor. It's mere coincidence ARM and not x86 powers all those smartphones.
I purchased a MacBook Pro last year...zero remorse.
(edit: maybe not "desktop" though)
Honestly, I think the research firm's divisions are crap. WTF is "mobility" anyway? Why would this not include laptops?
A Chromebox is a desktop PC. And ChromeOS devices can run a full Debian Linux distro in a VM. What's not desktop about that?
Or is the definition of desktop computer that it can, say, run Adobe Photoshop natively?
So a "desktop PC" isn't about its feature set or where you might put it, instead it is a form factor.
My point is that the Chromebook is a mobile device: it's tiny and easy to carry around. So why is it not in the "mobility" category? And for that matter, why is every laptop computer not in this category? When did "mobile" somehow become equal to "something you can carry in one hand while also operating it"? The entire point of laptops was that they're mobile. These days, not that many people use "desktop PCs", outside of corporate offices, they use "mobile devices" (i.e. laptops).
And where do tablets fall? You can prop them up on a desk and attach a keyboard, and they act just like a laptop (you can also connect external screens etc.).
As I said before, their categories are stupid.
https://www.hp.com/us-en/chrome/chromebase-all-in-one-deskto...
To the original point, it sleeps perfectly.
Objectively true.
> You would be hard pressed to find one that didn't
Eh, that's less true; I own 2 ARM Chromebooks, because I wanted some non-x86 in my life, and neither was hard to find, it just took me actually looking for it.
Search Chromebook on bestbuy, exclude out of stock and sort by price, and you'll see a mix of arm and x86.
Edit: Also Macs.
I thought ARM represented like ~5% of server install base, and maybe like 10% of 2022 server sales. Similarly, I understood Chromebooks + Macbooks (the two major laptop ARM products) to be on the order of 25% of laptop sales.
These are both real and meaningful chunks of market, but I don't think they're enough to make up for the discrepancy in numbers. Perhaps they are including game consoles.
[Edit] - found reporting on 2021 numbers they clearly seem to indicate that the first three sets of numbers are x86 only (https://venturebeat.com/consumer/mercury-research-amd-closes...)
The two big extra categories would seem to be game consoles (as suggested by GP), and IoT.