Intel controlled over 99% of the server CPU market for most of the 2000s and 2010s. It was less a competition than a default — Xeon was simply what servers ran on.
That era formally ended in Q1 2026.
AMD's EPYC processors now hold a record 46.2% of server CPU revenue, driven by a core count and price-performance advantage Intel hasn't been able to match. Meanwhile, ARM-based chips — custom silicon built by AWS, Google, and Microsoft using ARM's licensed architecture — account for 17–21% of global server shipments, a figure that barely existed five years ago.
https://www.buysellram.com/blog/the-end-of-intels-monopoly-how-amd-and-arm-are-quietly-redrawing-the-data-center-map/
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