Rising sales of AMD processors could put pressure on Intel

Earlier this year, we had already heard of AMD's return in terms of processor sales, and a new report suggests that the chip maker could soon be positioned with a 30% market share.

This comes from DigiTimes, a common source of tech rumors, albeit sometimes erratic, which claims that AMD will reach a 30% market share in the fourth quarter of 2018, according to industry sources.

Be cautious about this speculation, given that it is only a forecast from unspecified sources, indicating that radical changes in AMD's foundry strategy – primarily with TSMC to ensure that processors and graphics processors

As we said at the beginning, we have already seen AMD sell more processors – but from the limited point of view of a major retailer – and DigiTimes observes that Intel's delay in launching the 10nm processors (Cannon Lake) also helped AMD.

Indeed, just a few months ago, Intel announced that the processors of Cannon Lake would not be delivered in volume before the second half of 2019, consumer PCs being on sale at the end of the year. next year.

And that is to say that things do not go further, which could be possible given the well-documented difficulties of Intel in refining yields of 10 nm to an acceptable level for mass production. (Remember that Cannon Lake was due to be delivered for the first time in 2016).

Storm of supply

When you put that in relation to Intel's problems with current 14nm processors, resulting in out-of-stock issues and prices, it's perhaps not surprising that AMD processors, which are not production, profit soft.

As DigiTimes notes, PC makers are turning more and more to AMD processors rather than Intel chips. The reports cite Asus, MSI, Gigabyte and ASRock as having "accelerated" the shipping of devices equipped with AMD processors.

This apparently pushed AMD's desktop processor market share to more than 20% in the third quarter, with the expected 30% expected to be achieved in the next quarter.

Remember that these are all predictions and speculation, but that is consistent in making a credible proposal in the near future.

AMD becoming more competitive in the processor market can only be a good thing for the consumer, by exerting more pressure on Intel and perhaps by looking at its prices for current CPUs if there are problems with delays. 10 nm. and Cannon Lake.

Assuming that these stock problems that inflate Intel's prices can be sorted, of course, and that the company has certainly claimed that things were under control in a statement released earlier this month.

Via Hexus