{
  "id": 3050689,
  "title": "Both AMD and Intel's desktop CPU sales are falling off a cliff but Ryzen is falling a little slower",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/both-amd-and-intels-desktop-cpu-sales-are-falling-off-a-cliff-but",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-24T15:27:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PC Gamer",
    "slug": "pc-gamer",
    "url": "https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/processors/both-amd-and-intels-desktop-cpu-sales-are-falling-off-a-cliff-but-ryzen-is-falling-a-little-slower/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Both AMD and Intel are experiencing a decline in desktop CPU sales, but AMD is losing market share at a slower pace compared to Intel, according to Mercury Research. Despite overall growth in the CPU market, desktop CPU shipments from these two companies saw a significant decrease in Q2 2026, with a downturn of over 20% year-on-year. AMD, however, managed to gain market share both sequentially and on a year-on-year basis, partly due to smaller declines in their desktop CPU shipments.\n\nThe decline in desktop CPU sales is attributed to the high cost of building a complete system, including motherboards, RAM, and storage, which have become increasingly expensive due to a global memory shortage. This phenomenon is not limited to desktop CPUs; the global smartphone market is also expected to decline by 14.3% this year due to cost pressures. The memory and component shortage, caused by the AI server boom, is expected to impact various products and industries until at least 2030.",
  "summary": "Desktop processors aren't selling as well as they were, I wonder why.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Tom's Hardware",
        "title": "Desktop CPU shipments crater 20% amid high component costs, but AMD gains record share despite 'ugly' desktop processor market — Intel floods laptop market with millions of CPUs, but AMD still sets all-time share records",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/22/desktop-cpu-shipments-crater-20-amid-high-component-costs-but-amd",
        "published": "2026-08-22T12:30:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "Mercury Research: AMD's share of x86 client CPU shipments tops 30% for the first time, hitting 30.3% in Q2, up from 21.1% two years earlier, vs. Intel's 69.7% (Michael Kan/PCMag)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/mercury-research-amds-share-of-x86-client-cpu-shipments-tops-30-for",
        "published": "2026-08-24T19:25:01.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}