Global CPU Market Grew By More Than 30% Year-on-Year In Q1 2024

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  • Intel and AMD are ramping up their CPU shipments.
  • Shipments of client-based CPUs saw an increase of 33% from the previous year.
  • NPUs are expected to boost sales in the upcoming months.

Both Intel and AMD seem to be ramping up their CPU shipments compared to the previous year amidst a global PC market recovery after a prolonged downturn. However, they are still facing a decline in sales on a sequential basis.

According to John Peddie Research, shipments of client-based CPUs reached 62 million in Q1 2024, up 33% from the same quarter last year. On the other hand, this figure also shows a 9.4% decline from the prior quarter.

Why it matters: This indicates that the worldwide client-based CPU industry is in a solid position, with room for more growth.

The CPU Market Seems To Be Doing Better Than Before

The report spills the beans on another major trend: more and more users are now leaning towards laptops over desktops. Laptops have been winning the popularity contest for a while now, but it seems like they’re stealing the show even more these days.

In Q1 2024, desktop processor sales took a dip to 27% of the market compared to 32% in Q1 2023, while mobile processors shot up from 68% to a whopping 73%. The trend in total iGPU shipments is also similar; they reached 56 million units in the last quarter.

Although iGPU shipments increased by 30% year over year, less than 62 million units were shipped in Q4, 2023. According to the estimate, 98% of computers will have integrated graphics processing units soon.

For businesses like Intel and AMD, however, the rise in client PCs is not without its challenges.

Server farms and data centers may not be updated as quickly as the PC hardware industry would want, as evidenced by the research, which states that server CPU shipments decreased by 13% from the previous quarter and by as much as 17% from the same time last year.

In the initial quarter of 2024, the research firm forecasts a typical downturn in product and hardware sales. However, the latter half of the year promises noteworthy developments in mobile and desktop CPU technology.

AMD is slated to unveil its next-generation Ryzen processors at Computex 2024. Furthermore, Intel and AMD are developing new hardware for AI-powered PCs, and the enhanced capabilities of NPUs will likely boost sales and shipments of this new hardware in the upcoming months.

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