Intel’s CPU supply shortage doesn’t look like it’s getting better, and AMD is profiting. We were supposed to be seeing the chip manufacturing giant’s supply problems easing off as the big end of year manufacturing blitz ought to have abated. But the latest Digitimes research suggests that its CPU shortages are actually going to worsen going into the second quarter of 2019.

Last year the manufacturing issues Intel was experiencing, desperately trying to get enough 14nm silicon out of the factory door to meet demand, meant companies such as HP, Dell, and Lenovo couldn’t get enough CPUs into their machines. With its motherboard chips and the processors themselves all now utilising the same 14nm production node Intel simply couldn’t manufacture enough of either to keep production rolling.

Starting in August of last year the major notebook manufacturers began to experience a growing supply gap, with it topping 5% in the third quarter and Taiwan-based companies seeing their supply gaps spiking to 10% at times. And this has all been good news for AMD as it has managed to increased its laptop market share on the back of Intel’s problems. And not by a little bit either, going from just 9.8% at the start of 2018 up to 15.8% this year.