Apple made the largest contribution to Mac, accounting for 10.6% of Arm chip 2023Q3 shipments.

CTOnews.com November 11 news, according to the latest data released by Mercury Research institutions, although Arm SoC shipments increased in the third quarter of this year, but the increase in x86 CPU is more obvious, so the market share of Arm has declined.

Arm SoC shipments accounted for 10.6% of shipments in the third quarter of 2023, down 4 percentage points from 14.6% in the same period last year, but still a good result compared with 2-3% in 2020, the agency said.

Intel sold 70 per cent of client-side CPU in the third quarter of 2023, while AMD had 19.4 per cent of the client-side PC processor market, according to figures released earlier this week.

The proportion of Arm attached to CTOnews.com over the years is as follows:

At present, most of the Arm SoC shipments are Apple Mac devices, in addition to a small number of laptops with Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC running cheap Chromebook from various vendors such as Qualcomm and MediaTek.

Dean McCarron, head of Mercury Research, said:

We believe that the Arm PC CPU market grew significantly in the third quarter, with Apple's Mac and Arm-based Chromebook shipments both increasing in the current quarter.

However, due to the more obvious rebound in x86 shipments, resulting in a decline in the proportion of Arm.