Amd Ryzen sells 97 million units and reaches 17% share

AMD Ryzen processors have been very successful in recent years, but how much have you sold? AMD has never shared the sales numbers of its Ryzen processors, until now.

Ryzen processors reach 97 million units sold

AMD has shared a number of pieces of information, including the official announcement for the 7nm Zen 3 architecture and the 5nm Zen 4 architecture. At the same time, he mentioned that the cumulative sales of Ryzen processors in 2017-2019 were 97 million. Sales were divided into 23 million, 31 million and 43 million, respectively. The growth rates in 2018 and 2019 were 35% and 39%, respectively, mind-blowing.

AMD said the increase in market share is mainly due to the Ryzen 3000 series and the 3000U series second generation processors.

AMD also gave another number: In the past three years, Zen architecture has shipped 260 million cores, but because the specific ratio of Ryzen and EPYC series is unclear, it is impossible to judge how many cores Ryzen has on average, which estimated at around 6.

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In market terms, AMD claims that its share in the field of consumer processors was only 9% in 2017, 13% in 2018 and 17% in 2019. It almost doubled its market share in two years.

Data provided by market research organization Mercury recently showed that, in the fourth quarter of 2019, the desktop market share was 18.3%, an increase of 2.4 percentage points from the same period last year; the notebook market share was 16.2%, an increase from the same period last year 4.1%.

AMD also revealed that the average selling price of AMD consumer processors increased by 6% and 14% in 2018 and 2019, respectively. This has also brought more revenue and profit to AMD, so it has more abundant resources to develop new technologies. Products, forming a virtuous circle that benefits the company and ourselves, as we can expect great performance advances in next generations of Zen processors.

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