Singapore, June 3 -- The AMD-powered Asus ZenBook 14 (UM433DA) is the latest sign of AMD's growing traction in notebooks.

The chipmaker was expected to hit a 20 per cent share of the notebook market by the first quarter of this year - up from 14 per cent in the third quarter of last year - according to Taiwanese IT publication DigiTimes in January.

AMD's recent resurgence can be explained partially by Intel's year-long CPU shortage last year.

Competitive pricing helps too. Our review set, for instance, is priced at $1,398, compared with $1,598 for its Intel equivalent (UX433FAC).

Both models share the same chassis design and have similar features. But the AMD version has a larger 1TB solid-state drive (SSD) compared with the 512GB S...