Friday, November 13th 2026

AMD Loses Desktop CPU Share for the First Time in Months, Intel Regains Ground

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AMD's share of desktop CPU shipments fell to 29.9% in the third quarter of 2026, according to new Mercury Research data, shared by PC Gamer. That's a five-point drop from the 34.9% AMD held in Q2, with Intel climbing back to 70.1%. It's also AMD's lowest desktop figure since early 2025, when it sat at around 28%. A year ago, AMD held 33.6% of the desktop market.

Mercury itself admits it isn't sure what caused the swing. Its best guess is that weaker laptop demand let Intel shift more chips to desktops, which usually see a seasonal bump in the third quarter, after Intel had been under-supplying that market earlier in the year. AMD, on the other hand, didn't seem to get that seasonal increase. Mercury also points to AMD's heavier reliance on PC gaming, a market it says has been hurt by supply constraints on gaming GPUs. On top of that, AMD has openly admitted that demand is running ahead of what it can ship, and Lisa Su recently called AMD a "data center first" company.
Intel's gain probably says more about supply than about its desktop chips suddenly winning over gamers. Mercury notes that desktop volumes took a large hit in Q2, and both companies saw mobile CPU shipments drop by more than 10% in Q3. In servers, the trend went the other way, with AMD rising to 35.5% from 34.5% the quarter before.
Sources: Mercury Research, via PC Gamer

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61 Comments on AMD Loses Desktop CPU Share for the First Time in Months, Intel Regains Ground

#1
TumbleGeorge
Is time for scandal with cousine of Jensen Huang called Lisa Su? And to be fired too
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Makaveli
TumbleGeorgeIs time for scandal with cousine of Jensen Huang called Lisa Su? And to be fired too
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TumbleGeorge
Makaveli
Yes if you is this person isn't reliable and to not understand.
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#4
kondamin
TumbleGeorgeIs time for scandal with cousine of Jensen Huang called Lisa Su? And to be fired too
It would have been nice if she pushed more resources to graphics, other than that she’s been a great ceo and has been at the helm of the company during a meteoric rise.

I hope she remains in her seat for a good while.
Tim apple gone and now Jensen, Shantanu(adobe) is stopping too.
Seriously powerful men in charge for decades at some very infleuential companies all at the same time.
Change is inevitable, but there is no telling if it will turn out for the better.
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#5
TumbleGeorge
kondaminIt would have been nice if she pushed more resources to graphics, other than that she’s been a great ceo and has been at the helm of the company during a meteoric rise.

I hope she remains in her seat for a good while.
Tim apple gone and now Jensen, Shantanu(adobe) is stopping too.
Seriously powerful men in charge for decades at some very infleuential companies all at the same time.
Change is inevitable, but there is no telling if it will turn out for the better.
Yes she was better to AMD and to home users too. The key word: "was".
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#6
Makaveli
TumbleGeorgeYes if you is this person isn't reliable and to not understand.

Yahoo Finance's 'CEO of the Year'


She isn't getting fired anytime soon.

The business and the shareholders love her why would they want that.
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#7
TumbleGeorge
MakaveliThe business and the shareholders love her why would they want that
Because following Nvidia and said that AMD became ai company and start circle investments like Nvidia which is on way to got fail. Because scandals with she's cousin and in that way to make money. Inversors is possible to losing more money than they have earned so far.
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#8
Zodwraith
It's easy. The one place Intel never stopped competing was value as well as laptops. When someone is looking at a $2000 AMD AI laptop that doesn't even contain a GPU, or if you're looking at a $500 X3D, Intel starts to look a little more palatable. Especially to OEMs.
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#9
A Computer Guy
ZodwraithIt's easy. The one place Intel never stopped competing was value as well as laptops. When someone is looking at a $2000 AMD AI laptop that doesn't even contain a GPU, or if you're looking at a $500 X3D, Intel starts to look a little more palatable. Especially to OEMs.
The 270K was a good deal and still is. AMD CPU's are a bit hyper inflated in price in my opinion and it's worth looking for better deals on the Intel side.
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#10
kazuviking
All the techtubers and redditors preached that nobody buys intel and amd owns the market.

Then you look at the actual numbers and amd is still just a drop in a bucket.
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#11
Makaveli
TumbleGeorgeBecause following Nvidia and said that AMD became ai company and start circle investments like Nvidia which is on way to got fail. Because scandals with she's cousin and in that way to make money. Inversors is possible to losing more money than they have earned so far.
I don't think you understand how a business works and more so one worth billions.

Intel , Nvidia and AMD are all AI companies right now because that is where the money is and they are publicly traded with shareholders.

What investments are you aware of that AMD is looking at that are going to fail?

What does Jensen resigning have anything to do with Lisa su?

It sounds like you are making all of this up based on your feelings.
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#12
NeonSky77
the company that designs cpus for server like eypc with many cores with the chiplet style and then just recycles the same thing in a lazy way onto consumers and gives them all the disadvantages of a chiplet design...
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#13
DRCGG
TumbleGeorgeIs time for scandal with cousine of Jensen Huang called Lisa Su? And to be fired too
What are you smoking? She has being doing a fantastic job and is only doing what any CEO would do in the face of the AI boom. You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Go do a bowl and let the real talk stay with the adults in the chat.
TumbleGeorgeBecause following Nvidia and said that AMD became ai company and start circle investments like Nvidia which is on way to got fail. Because scandals with she's cousin and in that way to make money. Inversors is possible to losing more money than they have earned so far.
Go away. You have no clue what you are talking about. Nobody cares that she is distantly related to criminal Jensen as she does things differently and runs her company differently. Seriously you are not very smart as your thinking makes no sense.
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#14
kondamin
ZodwraithIt's easy. The one place Intel never stopped competing was value as well as laptops. When someone is looking at a $2000 AMD AI laptop that doesn't even contain a GPU, or if you're looking at a $500 X3D, Intel starts to look a little more palatable. Especially to OEMs.
That laptop now contains $800 valued in dram and nand.
x3d is a premium component they charge more for premium stuff if they had it.

Samsung is trought a rought patch foundry wise as is intel, competition for high end silicon production is winding up again so TSMC will have a harder time tagging price increases on to everything they make every couple of months when the AI buildout coolsdown
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#15
evernessince
ZodwraithIt's easy. The one place Intel never stopped competing was value as well as laptops. When someone is looking at a $2000 AMD AI laptop that doesn't even contain a GPU, or if you're looking at a $500 X3D, Intel starts to look a little more palatable. Especially to OEMs.
Intel is not winning in laptops because it offers better value. Before the DRAM crisis Intel systems were regularly $150+ more than the AMD equivalent in the midrange and above.

Intel never lost it's marketshare advantage in the laptop or Desktop OEM space, even when AMD was offering faster products at lower prices. Intel kept the lead because it has an old boys club with the large OEMs. Dell had to have it's hands twisted by customers just to offer AMD servers and many of the big players, outside of Chinese brands, offer high end AMD laptops. It was only recently that we've seen some more due to the AI craze.

It goes to show you just how strong a monopoly can be. Not imagine how hard it would be to crack the GPU market where there is actually software lock in that doesn't exist in the CPU market.
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#16
xxxZAURxxx
Since I’ve never known who the Intel CEO is, I imagine him to be a man like the one in this picture. :D
How can someone remain this quiet?

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#17
kondamin
xxxZAURxxxSince I’ve never known who the Intel CEO is, I imagine him to be a man like the one in this picture. :D
How can someone remain this quiet?

Intel switches out ceos at the same pace they change dram version
Pervious was Pat Gelsinger, current one is lip bu tan
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#18
kev7112001
ZodwraithIt's easy. The one place Intel never stopped competing was value as well as laptops. When someone is looking at a $2000 AMD AI laptop that doesn't even contain a GPU, or if you're looking at a $500 X3D, Intel starts to look a little more palatable. Especially to OEMs.
Gpu is on the cpu lol what are you talking about and its faster than many dedicated gpus
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#19
kev7112001
kazuvikingAll the techtubers and redditors preached that nobody buys intel and amd owns the market.

Then you look at the actual numbers and amd is still just a drop in a bucket.
A third+ is a drop in the bucket? And nobody does this is just oem sales which intel pays off those companies so they only uses intel this isnt new
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#20
Vya Domus
MakaveliShe isn't getting fried anytime
You'd have said the same about Jensen just a few weeks ago. Who knows, the CEO of a public company can be booted out at any time and under any circumstances, turns out there is no such thing as job safety even if you successfully lead trillion dollar companies.
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#21
kennyb422
She said they are a data center company first , you will see a big decline in the consumer products , gotta go where the money is , soon u won't own a computer youll just have services like GeForce now to play games
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#22
TumbleGeorge
DRCGGWhat are you smoking? She has being doing a fantastic job and is only doing what any CEO would do in the face of the AI boom. You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Go do a bowl and let the real talk stay with the adults in the chat.


Go away. You have no clue what you are talking about. Nobody cares that she is distantly related to criminal Jensen as she does things differently and runs her company differently. Seriously you are not very smart as your thinking makes no sense.
Do you remember that Huang was God to you before around week? In trying to win on dispute on me today you calling Jensen a criminal. So fast mindchanging you must be carousel at Disneyland.
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#23
Denver
TumbleGeorgeIs time for scandal with cousine of Jensen Huang called Lisa Su? And to be fired too
They could have a better strategy in the laptop market, which is larger than the desktop market. APUs have risen in price to levels they shouldn’t have, making new architectures less accessible to the masses. It was also foolish to give up on launching mobile dGPUs right when they have RDNA 4, which is so efficient.

Other than that, Lisa is an incredible CEO. AMD went from $2 per share to $500–600 thanks to her long-term vision.
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#24
TumbleGeorge
DenverThey could have a better strategy in the laptop market, which is larger than the desktop market. APUs have risen in price to levels they shouldn’t have, making new architectures less accessible to the masses. It was also foolish to give up on launching mobile dGPUs right when they have RDNA 4, which is so efficient.

Other than that, Lisa is an incredible CEO. AMD went from $2 per share to $500–600 thanks to her long-term vision.
Yes butt still is in bad news to home users with salaries below $5K per month.
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#25
ZoneDymo
TumbleGeorgeIs time for scandal with cousine of Jensen Huang called Lisa Su? And to be fired too
I dont recall you struggeling this much with English in the past.
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