From PC World: The PC CPU market set no new records for the second quarter of 2023, a researcher reports — and that’s all for the best.
Mercury Research reported that in the first quarter of 2023, CPU shipments within the PC market sunk to their lowest point in a decade. But in the second quarter, CPU sales soared by 20 percent quarter-over-quarter to where they’re expected to be — neither at the high nor low end of the scale, but somewhere in between. Another interesting wrinkle: Chromebook demand has begun surging again, according to Mercury principal analyst Dean McCarron.
McCarron didn’t provide overall shipment totals, reserving those for paid clients.
In the ongoing horse race between AMD and Intel, Intel won: the company gained 5.1 percentage points of market share during the quarter, if Internet of Things and embedded SOCs (which AMD sells into game consoles) were factored out. In desktop CPUs, Intel gained 1.2 percentage points; in mobile, Intel’s share soared by 8.1 percentage points.
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