... Says a single German PC enthusiast retailer. Hardly representative. They could have just run a big Ryzen ad campaign or something. The clickbait headline suggests this is based on official numbers.
Here's reports from Japan of AMD overtaking Intel in retail CPU market share in July for the first time ever. The month-to-month trend is actually pretty impressive even before the Zen2 launch: https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/1197213.html and https://www.bcnretail.com/market/detail/20190703_126041.html
AMD also overtook Intel for the first time ever in Korea: http://dpg.danawa.com/news/view?boardSeq=293&listSeq=3960065...
It looks like AMD is also scoring OEM wins on desktop and server (still weak on laptops where Intel seems like they're putting in a good fight and where AMD's staggered releases about 6-9mo behind).
Compared to just a year ago, AMD are absolutely killing it in the laptop market. The old A-series APUs were strictly relegated to very low cost machines, first-gen Ryzen struggled to gain traction, but most major manufacturers are now offering Ryzen-based laptops across the midrange. AMD are a long way from dominance, but they've become a legitimate competitor in a remarkably short space of time; for the first time ever, I expect my next laptop to be AMD-based.
Article says marketshare at that retailer for AMD was 68% in June, before the new processors launched on 7/7. In July it went up to 79%, which isn't that impressive considering pent up demand caused an increase of +11%.
Disagree, many if not most gamers build their PCs. On my forum, in every new build thread, all advise Ryzen, no one advises Intel.
Most gamers would never even consider such an endeavor.
The enthusiast market is clearly in a place where it favours AMD (I'm personally likely getting myself a new build based on their CPUs in the coming months), but this isn't necessarily representative of the CPU market as a whole.
The article here is about sales after the June 7th launch which went really well.
Also, big Wall Street traders are known to go to extremes to find sales figures, like using photos from spy satellites of Walmart parking lots to estimate sales before earnings dates. If AMD's sales were truly spectacular, they would be loading up AMD stock by the bucketload right now.