By Darren Allan
New sales stats from a popular German tech retailer have cast some light on the current state of the processor market, showing that while AMD has fought back with the recent launch of its Ryzen 2nd Generation chips, the firm hasn’t done enough to break the dominance of Intel’s Coffee Lake CPUs.
According to Mindfactory.de, which we’ve seen figures from in the past, Intel captured 55% of its processor sales in June 2018, compared to 45% for AMD. So it’s still a fairly tight race between the two chip giants, but AMD has failed to recover all the ground it has lost to Intel’s 8th-gen CPUs.
As you may remember, with the launch of the original Ryzen processors, AMD really turned things around, and actually took the majority share of processor sales according to this particular retailer – by a margin of 56% to 44% by the time August 2017 rolled around.
Intel had grabbed the majority share back come the end of last year, though, and pulled away to take a 61% market share in January and February of this year, off the back of new Coffee Lake chips.
That lead has since diminished, actually dropping …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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