To put all that into context, if you go back to the second half of 2016, about six months before AMD began to turn things around with the first Ryzen-branded CPUs, AMD's desktop C

On Friday, chip tracking firm Mercury Research reported that AMD’s desktop CPU shipments reached a 28.7% share in Q3, up from 19.2% a year ago. Conversely, rival Intel saw its desktop CPU shipments for x86 processors drop 9.6 percentage points for 71.3% share of the market.

AMD’s desktop CPU market share jumped nearly 10 percent in the last year, an analyst reported Thursday, on the heels of AMD’s strong rollout of its latest desktop gaming CPU. Mercury Research, which tracks the market share of PC CPUs from AMD,