Intel remains at the top: offering three times more CPUs than AMD and Apple combined

Intel continues to dominate the CPU market despite the best efforts of AMD and Apple.

While global PC shipments experienced a decline for much of 2023, some green signs were seen of an industry-wide recovery.

The GPU market saw GPU shipments increase by 5.9% at the end of the year and according to some recently released statistics, when it comes to the desktop and laptop market, it seems Intel may be leading a comeback against its competition in the CPU space, showing some real leadership over its closest rivals.

That's the latest statistic from Canalys , a global technology market analysis company (via WCCFTech). In the final quarter of 2023, Intel shipped a staggering 50 million CPUs, maintaining a truly massive 78% market share with 3% year-over-year growth.

That figure compares favorably with AMD's 8 million shipments and market share of 13%, which represents a slight 1% year-over-year decline in shipments.

Intel still dominates the number of CPUs on the market

This number is still significantly higher than Apple, with 6 million units shipped but shipments down 4%. For those who like overall parity, that equates to more than three times as many desktop and laptop CPUs being shipped as both of Intel's main competitors in the market The CPUs add up, a pretty impressive feat, especially since AMD in particular has some very competitive desktop components including the dominant gaming CPU that is the Ryzen 7 7800X3D.

That's not all about the performance figures of PC and desktop gaming chips, however. The laptop sector has been credited with leading the growth of both the GPU and CPU segments, and while gaming laptops may account for some of that increase, laptop sales Laptops and laptops in general are said to account for nearly 69% of total sales. global CPU market

It seems like a clear sweep for the blue team, as according to recent figures, the x86 CPU segment is still under its control.

However, if the most recent leaks are to be believed, it may not be long before AMD launches some new contenders in the desktop CPU market, in the form of its Zen 5 "Granite Ridge" architecture chips. , is now said to likely launch between April and June this year. As for CPUs for laptops, the new Zen 5 "Strix Point" CPU is also rumored to appear later this year.

As things stand, Intel remains tight-lipped about the next-gen Arrow Lake desktop CPUs due to replace the current Raptor Lake Refresh generation, despite the launch of Computerx in June and Intel's Pat Gelsinger will give a keynote speech

Perhaps we'll get a clearer idea of ​​when we'll see these two giants go head-to-head in the desktop market with some kind of CPU using the new silicon process or even possibly We could be looking at some new laptop chips in the form of Lunar Lake.