AMD And Intel Suffer Massive CPU Sales Decline As Memory Shortages Grow

Desktop CPU Sales Are in the Toilet, but You Already Know Who’s Really Screwed

The price of RAM is having knock-on effects for everything, including processors and monitors.

AMD And Intel Suffer Massive CPU Sales Decline As Memory Shortages Grow

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Both AMD and Intel's desktop CPU sales are falling off a cliff but Ryzen is falling a little slower

Apart from the very occasional bundle, I can't remember the last time we recommended a deal on a CPU. Monitors, yes. Gaming PCs, definitely. But not CPUs, because however well-priced they are, it's hard to recommend a system upgrade when buying the rest of the system needed to go along with it is so damn expensive. I'm not entirely surprised, then, that Mercury Research says that desktop CPU shipments from AMD and Intel "in the second quarter ar…