3rd-quarter Client CPU Shipments Increased

3rd-quarter client CPU shipments increased 12% from last quarter, up 7.8% from last year

Server CPUs were up 10.5% from last quarter.

Jon Peddie Research reports that the global client CPU market expanded in Q3’24 compared to the previous quarter and showed strong growth of 12.2%, and server CPU shipments increased 2% year over year.

Figure 1. After two consecutive quarters of decline, this quarter increased—seasonality?

The overall PC CPU market increased by 12% quarter to quarter and by 7.8% year to year.

Figure 2. Desktop vs. Notebook share of the overall market.

Server CPU shipments increased by 10.5% from the previous quarter and were up 2% from the previous year; AMD slipped to 24.1% of the market.

The third quarter is typically up compared to the previous quarter. This quarter’s total iGPU shipments, which include all client platforms, jumped 7% from the previous quarter and increased 6% over last year.

“China led the growth of PC CPUs, a large share of it coming from Lenovo,” said Dr. Jon Peddie, president of Jon Peddie Research. “The client PC market continues to jump up and down, but the sharp increase in Q3 is welcomed news. The benefit, if any, from AI PCs is difficult to identify.”

The new Q3’24 edition of Market Watch will contain the above information and more. For easier consumption, we have changed the report’s format from a heavily narrated version to a heavily charted version. We have also added server and client CPU shipment data back to Q1’21 and GPU-compute (GPGPU) shipment data back to Q1’21 for AMD, Intel, and Nvidia. We have expanded the pivot data array to include those devices.

JPR also publishes a series of reports on the graphics add-in board market, the PC gaming hardware market, the workstation market, the CAD, and content creation markets, and other related market studies.

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About Jon Peddie Research

Jon Peddie Research has been active in the graphics and multimedia fields for more than 30 years. JPR is a technically oriented multimedia and graphics research and consulting firm. Based in Tiburon, California, JPR provides consulting, research, and other specialized services to technology companies in various fields, including graphics development, multimedia for professional applications and consumer electronics, high-end computing, and Internet-access product development. JPR’s Market Watch is a quarterly report focused on PC graphics controller’s market activity for notebook and desktop computing.