It is a fact that, since the arrival of the Zen architecture, AMD’s successes have been consecutive. That first architecture that supposed the jump to an MCM design to the detriment of the monolithic core was the subject of strong criticism, but in the end it has been key in leading AMD to a position that in 2016 would have seemed unthinkable to us.
AMD’s advancement in the consumer and professional consumer CPU markets, the latter including both HEDT and servers and data centers, has been so great that its market share has improved significantly in a very short time, And according to the most recent investigations carried out by DigiTimes, a very reliable source, if its growth continues, it could reach 20% of the server CPU market by 2023.
To put this in perspective, it is necessary to remember that AMD’s market share in the server sector was almost a mere anecdote before Zen, and that In 2021, said company closed the year with a market share in servers of 11.2%.. Intel continued to maintain a comfortable position with its 84.7% market share, but the pressure was becoming more evident, and according to the first estimates by DigiTimes things will increase in the coming years, since AMD’s market share in server CPUs it would have risen to 15.6% in 2022, and could reach 20.5% in 2023.
This is impressive growth, especially considering that if these forecasts come true AMD would double its server market share in just three years. Intel would fall to a 70.9% market share in 2023, and ARM would go from having 2.6% in 2020 to closing 2023 with a market share of 8.1%, another very positive figure for this company, whose arquitectura has long been leading the field of mobile devices and wearables in general.
between the keys that have driven this great success by AMD in the server sector highlight the high core and thread count that EPYC processors have, which in fact reached 96 cores and 192 threads with Genoa, its good single-thread performance, its high efficiency (performance per watt) and the support it has received from TSMC when it comes to producing its high-performance solutions for servers.
According to the source, Microsoft and Google They are the companies that are betting the most on AMD solutions when it comes to boosting their servers, and H.P.E. is the brand of servers that has shown the most interest in the EPYC processors of the Sunnyvale giant. It will be interesting to see how that fight between Intel and AMD in the server and data center market evolves, but there is no doubt that this one will only become more intense.
