Amazon US CPU sales fall to 25,700 in February

Amazon US sold 25,700 CPUs in February, a drop of 23,400 units compared with the same time last year. Market analyst and creator TechEpiphany, who rounds up sales every month (via 3DCenter), compiled the figures. AMD accounted for 23,000 of the February sales, with Intel at 2,700.

The two most popular CPUs, each with around 4,000 sales, were the AMD Ryzen 5 5500 and the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D; in February 2025 the Ryzen 7 9800X3D registered over 6,000 sales at an average of $510. Motherboard sales are down 50%, a sign that the memory crisis is having a major knock-on effect for PC builders and home upgrades.

The spike in memory prices has also caused stock insecurity around storage and GPUs, and a new CPU looks less appealing if builders cannot afford the memory or GPU upgrades to pair with it. Micron revealed demand is "significantly in excess of our available supply for the foreseeable future," and said many plans to address the shortfall won’t come to fruition until 2027 or 2028.

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