If you’ve been tracking AMD’s market share in the PC CPU market, you know that it’s continually climbed over the past year or so. Chief executive Dr. Lisa Su told Wall Street that she expects that trend to continue, even after the company’s desktop CPU business reached record highs during the third quarter of 2025. AMD’s Client and Gaming segment of the business sold $4 billion worth of processors, CPUs, and semi-custom chips for the console business during the third quarter, but was slightly surpassed by a record $4.3 billion from the data center. Given the ravenous appetite for AI, its efforts in the data center dominated the company’s third-quarter 2025 earnings call — analysts didn’t ask a single question specifically about its PC business. That’s somewhat surprising, given AMD’s continued success in the PC market. The company’s client business, made up of its CPU sales, recorded a record $2.8 billion. “Our PC processor business is performing exceptionally well, with record quarterly sales as the strong demand environment and breadth of our leadership Ryzen portfolio accelerates growth,” Su told analysts in a transcript provided by Investing.com. “Desktop CPU sales reached an all-time high, with record channel sell-in and sell-out led by robust demand for our Ryzen 9000 processors, which deliver unmatched performance across gaming, productivity, and content creation applications.” AMD’s desktop CPU share has gained almost 10 percentage points since last year, and Su said she expects that trend to continue. “Looking ahead, we see significant opportunity to continue growing our client business faster than the overall PC market, based on the strength of our Ryzen portfolio, broader platform coverage, and expanded go-to-market investments,” she said. Interestingly, Ryzen notebooks even “increased sharply” during the quarter, Su said. That’s surprising, given that Intel has maintained the typical 80-20 split between AMD and Intel, especially in the notebook business. If the chipmaker is cutting into that, Intel will face a significant attack on multiple fronts. AMD said less about its efforts in the GPU business, though it noted that revenue and channel sell-out grew significantly, driven by the Radeon 9000. The company’s FSR4 technology, which uses upscaling and AI frame generation within the RX 9000 generation to improve frame rates, now supports more than 85 games. AMD also saw a boost from its semi-custom business as Microsoft and Sony ramp up console production for the holiday sales season. That’s a double-edged sword, as the company’s outlook includes a decline in “strong double digits” in gaming revenue, presumably reflecting a lull after the holiday console sales boom. AMD’s second-quarter revenue increased 36 percent year over year to $9.2 billion, with net income up 31 percent to $1.243 billion. Read...

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Hey, you! Yes, you, on the iPhone! You’ve got a virus in your Windows PC! Better download this totally legit free app and let it scan all your files for threats and such. So goes the pitch for a trillion or so pop-ups that try to alarm you into an unwise download. Microsoft’s Edge browser now protects against such “scareware” by default. The real-time scanner is turned on in Edge version 142 for any Windows or Mac device with at least 2GB of RAM and four CPU cores, which should be pretty much everything sold in the last five years or so. Microsoft says that the browser’s Scareware Blocker can start blocking scams “hours or even days before they appear on global blocklists,” according to data from a preview program that started earlier this year. Microsoft says Scareware Blocker has detected all the usual “you’ve got a virus” BS, fake Blue Screens of Death (they’re black now), fake ransomware demands (that would be one kind of criminal pretending to be another kind of criminal, har har), and pages pretending to be law enforcement accusing the user of crimes. Edge can use the real-time scareware sensor to inform Windows Defender SmartScreen, which will enhance the protection for all Windows users. The setting is turned off by default, even though the Edge Blog says that it works “without sharing screenshots or any extra data beyond what SmartScreen already receives.” (Someone in Redmond got gun-shy after all that Recall business, huh?) The setting can reportedly help a detected scam reduce its spread from 30 percent of users before an active block is put up, down to just 5 percent. If you encounter a scam that didn’t trip the detector, or if you’re getting a lot of false positives, you can still share reports and screenshots manually. And I think—or at least hope—that those manual user reports would carry a lot more weight than the regular scans. Read...

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