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AMD Benefits from Chip Shortage at Intel

AMD Benefits from Chip Shortage at Intel. Intel lost market share to AMD in December. The chip shortage at Intel puts PC sellers back on the direct competitor.

 

Intel has a very dominant position in the market for laptops, desktops and workstations. At the end of 2018, the company had a market share of 91.1 percent in Western Europe.

But a year later that has dropped to 84.1 percent reports market analyst Context. Suitable for 5.34 million units. That while the market itself grew by 5.8 percent to 6,348 million units.

Specifically for December 2019, the number of PCs with AMD chips rose to 16 percent of PC sales, compared to 7 percent in the same month a year earlier. Intel and AMD are the only two prominent players in this segment. The other players together achieve only 1 percent market share.

Context partly explains the shortage of Intel chips that played a role in the majority of 2019 and will also play a role in the first months of 2020. Earlier it became clear that even the Xeon processors, the server chips from Intel, are limited available this year.

The difference is even more significant in the consumer market. There, the market share of Intel at the end of 2018 was 89 percent, with 10 percent for AMD.

Last December it was 76 percent for Intel and 24 percent for AMD. AMD would also have gained market share in business sales, but less.

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