AMD claws back some discrete-GPU market share

At the Polaris launch in Macau earlier this year, spicy food aficionado and Radeon Technologies Group leader Raja Koduri noted that one of his goals with the new product family was to retake a significant share of the discrete GPU market. Now, AMD has provided us with some information that suggests the RTG is succeeding in that mission. The company provided us with some numbers from the latest PC graphics market report from Mercury Research, and they're relatively rosy.

Going by Mercury Research's information, AMD increased its share of total discrete GPU sales to 34.2% of the market (by unit volume) in the second quarter of 2016, an ...