The latest CPU market share figures show a positive trend for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and a negative trend for Intel (INTC). AMD is the most decorated semiconductor stock of 2019. It has grown 80% for the second straight year and is still growing. AMD touched a new 13-year high even when the overall semiconductor industry is in a downtrend.

The driving force behind AMD’s stock trend is its market share gain from Intel (INTC) and NVIDIA (NVDA) in the CPU (central processing unit) and GPU (graphics processing unit) space. AMD is gaining market share by launching competitive products at lower prices, offering customers a better price-to-performance ratio.

Intel CEO Bob Swan noted during the company’s second-quarter earnings release that the company lost some share in the PC CPU market to rival AMD.