AMD has finally overtaken Intel in the datacentre segment thanks to its continued efforts, offering faster and more advanced solutions. Team Red is thus second in revenue, just behind Nvidia’s networking division.
According to the brands’ respective earning reports, Nvidia is first with $3.668 billion – excluding the $22.604 billion from its GPU sales, AMD is second with $3.549 billion, and Intel is third with $3.3 billion in revenue.
From 2022 onward, Team Blue entered a continued decline, which is contrary to its competitors, who grew aggressively. It went from above $6 billion down to the current $3.3 billion – a stark contrast with AMD and Nvidia, who have tripled their revenue. While datacentres aren’t the only viable customers, it’s the biggest portion of their income. After all, these are the kind of customers who don’t care much about price as long as they have the best chips that will get them their money back through varied services.
While Intel does offer very fast server chips, the combination of higher AI performance through AMD’s Instinct MI portfolio and better performance per dollar in the Epyc processor lineup made it the go-to choice in recent years. That said, Intel’s upcoming Xeon CPUs may shake things up a bit as they are expected to be both efficient and powerful – two aspects that AMD is quite good at.
Intel’s domination in the datacentre market seems to have ended, as there’s no sign AMD is slowing down. Meanwhile, Intel faces many issues in the desktop CPU segment and struggles to grab market share with its new GPU endeavour. Things seem so bad that many rumours claim Intel may be bought by another brand. While I am no analyst, I don’t see the US letting anyone buy its chip champion. That said, if AMD and Nvidia continue their growth, Team Blue may become redundant. A bad omen for competition.
In any case, AMD’s continued push for excellence finally paid off, both in dollar bills and in brand awareness. Hopefully, this will push Intel to wake up from its slumber and compete again.