What is happening in the processor market now? It's no secret that after spending many years in the shadow of a competitor, AMD launched an attack on Intel with the release of the first processors based on the Zen architecture. This does not happen all at once, but now in Japan the company has already managed to outperform its rival in terms of processor sales.
Buy queue in Japan
The PC Watch Japan resource provided aggregate data from 24 popular retail sites in Japan, including Amazon Japan online stores, BIC Camera, Edion and several physical networks. The publication writes that the recent surge in the popularity of AMD chips has led to an increase in the market share of desktop processors for the DIY sector to 68,6% in the period from July 8 to July 14. PC Watch writes that this is partly due to the shortage of Intel processors - however, the same problem is observed with the latest AMD processors.
Earlier data shows that AMD processors in Japan have shown steady growth over the past year and a half. From just 2018% of the market at the start of 17,7, it hit 46,7% last month, on the eve of a final push thanks to the launch of the latest 7nm Ryzen 3000 chips based on Zen 2. Here is the BCN data:
While AMD is ahead of Intel in the stand-alone desktop processor market, it is still far behind Intel when it comes to finished PCs and laptops, despite significant gains over the past seven months. If in December 2018, the red team's share of the finished PC market in Japan was less than one percent; then in June 2019 it already amounted to 14,7%. Same BCN data:
Source: 3dnews.ru