What simply occurred? Within the everlasting processor conflict between Intel and AMD, staff blue has scored a win—to an extent. German retailer Mindfactory experiences that Intel’s motherboard income has handed AMD’s for the primary time in years, although it nonetheless lags behind on the subject of the full variety of items bought.
Twitter’s TechEpiphany (by way of Tom’s {Hardware}) experiences that in week 7 of 2022, Mindfactory’s knowledge confirmed Intel motherboards generated €234,656 (round $266,604) whereas AMD variants managed €208,236 (~$236,587). Which means Pat Gelsinger’s agency was answerable for 53% of Mindfactory’s whole mobo gross sales cash, and Lisa Su’s firm gained a 47% share.
🔥 Mainboard Retail Gross sales Week 7
☝️Intel (income) overtakes AMD for first time in years.
AMD: 1590 Items bought, 53.9%, ASP: 130.97 (Euro)
Intel: 1360, 46.1%, ASP: 172.54AMD income: 208’235.85, 47.02%
Intel: 234’655.9, 52.98%#AMD #Intel #AMDRyzen pic.twitter.com/g2Ou5ayI62— TechEpiphany (@TechEpiphany) February 19, 2022
Tom’s {Hardware} notes that the figures are important as a result of Germany has lengthy been a stronghold for AMD, particularly because the launch of its Zen structure.
It’s additionally essential to notice that whereas Intel did make more cash from its motherboards than AMD in week 7, its rival bought extra items. Prospects purchased 1,590 AM4 motherboards that week, whereas the full variety of LGA1151, LGA1200, and LGA1700 boards bought was 1,350 items. That’s nonetheless much more than what Intel managed over the last few weeks—client LGA 1700 (Z690) boards arrived in November alongside the Alder Lake processors. Furthermore, the mainstream Alder Lake chips and H670, B660, and H610 boards solely launched in January.
Intel’s mobo income was larger because of its dearer motherboards. The common promoting value (ASP) for Intel boards in week 7 was €173 ($196), whereas AMD motherboards’ ASP was €131 ($146).
Final week noticed Intel unveil its expertise roadmap by 2024, together with Raptor Lake, Meteor Lake, Arrow Lake, and Lunar Lake. It’s additionally been a great month for AMD, which surpassed Intel’s market worth for the primary time ever following its $49 billion all-stock takeover of Xilinx.
