[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-amds-desktop-cpu-share-drops-to-299-from-about-35":10,"sections":35},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":24,"tags":25,"sources":30,"feedback":34,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":34,"total_tokens":34},13057,"amds-desktop-cpu-share-drops-to-299-from-about-35","AMD's Desktop CPU Share Drops to 29.9% From About 35%","Mercury Research's Q3 2026 data shows a swing back to Intel, and the likely causes point to a weak PC market more than to better Intel chips.","AMD's share of the desktop CPU market fell from around 35% in Q2 2026 to 29.9% in Q3, a 5.1-point drop that hands ground back to Intel after a decade of AMD gains, according to market researchers Mercury Research.\n\nMercury said it is not sure why. It offered two guesses. Weaker mobile CPU demand may have freed Intel to ship more chips to desktops, a segment that normally rises in the third quarter and that Intel had under-supplied earlier in 2026. AMD, by contrast, did not see that seasonal bump. The second guess is that AMD is more exposed to PC gaming, which has suffered from what Mercury called supply constraints on gaming GPUs.\n\nThe second theory is the odd one, because AMD currently makes the gaming CPUs most buyers should want. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D tops one recommendation list, while Intel's Arrow Lake chips struggle to match AMD in games and sit on a platform that is a dead end, with Nova Lake expected on a new socket. So this is not a product story. Intel still carries weight with system builders and OEMs (the big PC makers), who buy chips for cheap prebuilt machines, including older DDR4-compatible parts.\n\nThat points to a pricing story. If GPUs, RAM and storage cost enough to put people off building a gaming PC, the enthusiast buyers AMD wins most easily are the ones who stay home. Share is a ratio, and it can move when one side's best customers go quiet.\n\nIt is also not a sign of health. Mercury said desktop volumes fell sharply in Q2, and both companies reportedly saw mobile chip shipments drop more than 10% in Q3. AMD has said demand is outstripping its supply, and closing that gap means growing its datacentre business. It is also set to pass Intel in total revenue by the end of the year.\n\nOne caveat: the swing is large enough that bad data is a live explanation, though Mercury has been reliable before. Q4 numbers will show whether this was a one-quarter supply quirk or the start of a longer shift.","[\"intel\",\"amd\",\"cpus\",\"market-share\"]","2026-11-13T15:23:48.000Z","2026-11-13T23:00:28.503Z","2026-11-13T23:01:22.068Z","published",null,[],"hardware",[26,27,28,29],"intel","amd","cpus","market-share",[31],{"name":32,"url":33},"PCGamer","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.pcgamer.com\u002Fhardware\u002Fprocessors\u002Fintel-takes-massive-chunk-out-of-amds-desktop-cpu-market-share-in-unexpected-turnaround-may-be-due-to-the-red-teams-dominance-in-gaming-chips-weirdly\u002F",0,{"sections":36},[37,42,47,52,57,62,65,70,75,80,85,90,95,100],{"name":38,"slug":39,"count":40,"latest_published_at":41},"AI","ai",7151,"2026-11-13T11:05:00.000Z",{"name":43,"slug":44,"count":45,"latest_published_at":46},"Security","security",1135,"2026-11-13T16:26:32.000Z",{"name":48,"slug":49,"count":50,"latest_published_at":51},"Deals","deals",656,"2026-11-13T15:00:00.000Z",{"name":53,"slug":54,"count":55,"latest_published_at":56},"Policy","policy",624,"2026-11-13T13:58:05.000Z",{"name":58,"slug":59,"count":60,"latest_published_at":61},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",372,"2026-11-13T14:37:16.000Z",{"name":63,"slug":24,"count":64,"latest_published_at":18},"Hardware",340,{"name":66,"slug":67,"count":68,"latest_published_at":69},"Science","science",232,"2026-11-13T12:00:40.000Z",{"name":71,"slug":72,"count":73,"latest_published_at":74},"Software","software",173,"2026-11-13T15:05:54.000Z",{"name":76,"slug":77,"count":78,"latest_published_at":79},"Startups","startups",161,"2026-11-13T15:21:46.000Z",{"name":81,"slug":82,"count":83,"latest_published_at":84},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",127,"2026-11-11T19:00:44.000Z",{"name":86,"slug":87,"count":88,"latest_published_at":89},"General","general",120,"2026-11-13T11:33:19.000Z",{"name":91,"slug":92,"count":93,"latest_published_at":94},"Gaming","gaming",109,"2026-11-13T10:00:00.000Z",{"name":96,"slug":97,"count":98,"latest_published_at":99},"Reviews","reviews",38,"2026-10-20T12:00:00.000Z",{"name":101,"slug":102,"count":103,"latest_published_at":104},"How-To","how-to",8,"2026-10-05T09:00:00.000Z"]