This week, we can finally look forward to official news on the long-brewing Windows 10 update, code named Sun Valley, as Microsoft has officially named an event where it will disclose major changes coming to Windows. We also have major news in the form of TSMC’s Technology Symposium 2021, and a new lawsuit against Dell, targeting alleged false advertising for its Alienware Area-51M R1 laptop.
ExtremeTech
AMD’s Steam CPU Share Skyrockets Over 12 Months By Joel Hruska on June 9, 2021 at 8:16 am
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use.
There’s good news for AMD in the Steam Hardware Survey numbers, and they appear to reflect increased uptake of the company’s gaming CPUs. We say “appear” because it’s never been quite clear when and how Steam updates its survey results, but unlike with GPUs, Steam doesn’t really try to track model numbers just vendor and clock.
The Steam numbers for AMD are good on their own, but they’re downright fabulous compared with where the smaller CPU company was sitting a year ago. In June of 2020 (reflecting May results), AMD had 22.45 percent of the market. Today, it’s just over 30 percent. Here’s the company’s market share for the past few years:
Valve has recently shared the results of the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for May 2021. According to the data, AMD has crossed the 30% usage milestone, suggesting AMD’s market share in the mainstream gaming market is growing. As per Steam Hardware & Software Survey: May 2021 results, AMD processor’s usage on Steam has increased …
Author Bio
Harsh has been covering technology, and sometimes retail, since 2011. He is focused on finding great businesses for the long run. You can follow him on twitter @techjunk13 Follow @techjunk13
The
Nasdaq-100 Technology Sector index has retreated more than 7% in the past month, bringing down the valuations of some fast-growing names in tech that were considered overvalued earlier. But one shouldn t forget that this same index has jumped more than 240% in the past five years, which means that a $5,000 investment in the index would be worth $17,000 now.
Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) stock has done even better over five years, rising over 1,850% and turning $5,000 into nearly $100,000. Rival graphics card specialist