AMD’s share in the desktop CPU market continued to increase during the third quarter, a market researcher reported, while Intel’s decision to pull back in the low end of the mobile market left the two players relatively stable.

A report by Mercury Research said that third-quarter shipments in the x86 market were well below seasonal growth, though that was due to lower Internet of Things and SoC shipments, which had climbed significantly in the second quarter. Mercury reserved the specific numbers for its own clients.

Factoring out the IoT and SoC impact, however, AMD’s market share of the x86 market compared to Intel grew slightly, up 1.6 percentage points to 25.6 percent of the market. Intel retained the remaining 74.4 percent. Arm’s total share (including servers) versus all x86 shipme

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