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by lhl 2509 days ago
While the headline is a bit clickbaity, for the retail CPU market, I don't think it's actually that unrepresentative.

Here's reports from Japan of AMD overtaking Intel in retail CPU market share in July for the first time ever. The month-to-month trend is actually pretty impressive even before the Zen2 launch: https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/1197213.html and https://www.bcnretail.com/market/detail/20190703_126041.html

AMD also overtook Intel for the first time ever in Korea: http://dpg.danawa.com/news/view?boardSeq=293&listSeq=3960065...

It looks like AMD is also scoring OEM wins on desktop and server (still weak on laptops where Intel seems like they're putting in a good fight and where AMD's staggered releases about 6-9mo behind).

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>still weak on laptops where Intel seems like they're putting in a good fight

Compared to just a year ago, AMD are absolutely killing it in the laptop market. The old A-series APUs were strictly relegated to very low cost machines, first-gen Ryzen struggled to gain traction, but most major manufacturers are now offering Ryzen-based laptops across the midrange. AMD are a long way from dominance, but they've become a legitimate competitor in a remarkably short space of time; for the first time ever, I expect my next laptop to be AMD-based.

Mine is. AMD Ryzen 3 3200U in Acer Aspire ~$300. Like it a lot. First non Intel in a laptop for me.