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Third-quarter client CPU shipments increased 2.2% from last quarter but down -2.2% from previous year

Server CPUs were up 2.7% from last quarter.

Jon Peddie

Jon Peddie Research has released its third-quarter report on the global client CPU and iGPU market.

Jon Peddie Research reports that the global client CPU market expanded for three quarters in a row, and in Q3’25, it showed seasonal growth of 2.2% from last quarter, while server CPU shipments increased 13.6% year over year. 

Total client CPU

Figure 1. The first two quarters of the year experienced an unseasonal increase; this quarter also saw an increase.

Q3 is typically up. Some of it was due to  “buy ahead of the tariffs,” and some of it the EOL of Windows 10.

The overall server CPU market increased by 2.7% quarter to quarter and by 13.6% year to year.

Servers

Figure 2. Server share of the overall market.

“We think the PC CPUs’ growth was prompted mostly by the end-of-life of Windows 10, and a little bit due to the tariffs,” said Dr. Jon Peddie, president of Jon Peddie Research. “The client PC market has now had three consecutive quarters of growth, which, except for Q3, is out of sync with traditional seasonality trends. We don’t expect Q4 to be very strong.”

Pricing and availability

JPR’s Overview of PC Client CPUs and iGPUs report is now available for free to Market Watch subscribers and can be purchased separately for $250.

The upcoming Q3’25 edition of Market Watch will contain the above information and more. For easier consumption, we have revised the report’s format from a heavily narrated version to a more visually appealing chart-based version. We have also added server and client CPU shipment data back to Q1’21 and GPU-compute (GPGPU) shipment data back to Q1’21 for AMD, Intel, and Nvidia. We have expanded the pivot data array to include those devices.

JPR’s Market Watch is available in an electronic edition; a single issue sells for $3,000. This report includes an Excel workbook with the data used to create the charts, the charts themselves, and supplemental information. The annual subscription price for JPR’s Market Watch is $6,000 and includes four quarterly issues.

Click here to view the table of contents and more related to this significant report or to download it now. For more information, call (415) 435-9368 or visit the Jon Peddie Research website at www.jonpeddie.com.

JPR is now also offering two new reports: on AI coprocessors and RISC-V processors.

JPR also publishes a series of reports on the graphics add-in board market, the workstation market, and PC gaming hardware market. The latter covers the total market, including systems and accessories, and examines 31 countries. 

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