Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, holds an Epyc Rome server module.
Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, holds an Epyc Rome server module.
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AMD CEO: Our CPUs gained market share over past 5 quarters

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su said during the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call that the company has gained market share in x86 central processing units (CPUs) for the past five quarters.

Su said that Santa Clara, California-based AMD has gained share against its big rival Intel with its Zen-based architecture, which handle 52 percent more instructions per clock cycle than the previous generation. Since March 2017, AMD has introduced 10 different families of chips based on the Zen architecture across the Ryzen PC, Ryzen Mobile notebook, Ryzen Threadripper gaming processor, and Epyc server brand names.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.