To put all that into context, if you go back to the second half of 2016, about six months before AMD began to turn things around with the first Ryzen-branded CPUs, AMD's desktop C

A new report reveals unit share increases for AMD CPUs across the board, with strong increases in desktop and server chips. Intel's share falls, because of slower CPU purchases.

AMD’s desktop CPU sales surged in the last year, gaining nearly 10 percent market share (in units), according to AMD’s numbers, which appear in a report by well-known semiconductor industry watcher Mercury Research.