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Q2 Client CPU Shipments Up 8% From Last Quarter

Also, client CPU shipments up 13% from last year, according to JPR.

Q2 Client CPU Shipments Up 8% From Last Quarter
Source: Jon Peddie Research
Figure 1. The first two quarters of the year experienced an unseasonal increase.

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August 14, 2025

Jon Peddie Research reports that the global client CPU market expanded for two quarters in a row, and in Q2 2025, it showed growth of 7.9% from last quarter, whereas server CPU shipments increased 22% year over year.

Q1 is typically flat to down, and Q2 is normally down, but both were up. The overall server CPU market increased by 0.6% quarter to quarter and by 22% year to year.

“We think the PC CPUs’ growth was accelerated by the coming tariffs, and to a much lesser extent, by AI PCs,” says Dr. Jon Peddie, president of Jon Peddie Research. “The client PC market has now had two consecutive quarters of growth, which is totally out of whack with traditional seasonality trends.”

The new Q2 2025 edition is revised from a heavily narrated version to a chart-based version. JPR has added server and client CPU shipment data back to Q1 2021 and GPU-compute (GPGPU) shipment data back to Q1 2021 for AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA. 

Pricing and Availability

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, and supplemental information. The annual subscription price for JPR’s Market Watch is $6,000 and includes four quarterly issues. Full subscribers to JPR services receive TechWatch (the company’s exclusive access to daily news). 

For more information, call (415) 435-9368 or visit the Jon Peddie Research website at www.jonpeddie.com.

Contact Jon Peddie at JPR ([email protected]) for a free sample of TechWatch. JPR’s overview of the PC client CPUs and iGPUs report is now available free to Market Watch subscribers and can be purchased separately for $250.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.

 

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