It’s my understanding that AMD manufactures more powerful chips? gpu’s? for far less cost and that once a company is locked into one brand they can’t move to the other because of compatibility issues? What are the issues? I work in OEM distribution but obviously not technical… based on ability I would think customers would always pick servers/ whatever with AMD inside because of the “more for less” capability but Intel has such a strong hold on the market that doesn’t seem to be fading.
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They’re competitors in the same CPU market, x86 CPUs. In terms of compatibility, they’re swappable. Anywhere you use an Intel CPU, you can use an AMD CPU and vice versa. The only thing that might restrict someone is contracts or who the OEM has a contract with etc.
Performance-wise there are differences. There are a lot of ways performance can be measured and compared and it changes all the time. Neither Intel nor AMD are constantly “better” than the other. For most users, there isn’t a huge difference. But for more advanced or specialized use cases they might prefer one or the other. Currently Intel is known for better single-threaded performance, while AMD is known for massive scalability with number of threads.
Intel has massive momentum in the cloud market because they were dominant for so long. AMD only put out a CPU that could compete against Intel in the cloud market with Ryzen. Intel had a massive lead for well over a decade when AWS and Azure were growing. Intel also has its own fabs and can far outstrip AMD in sheer production. Most CPUs are bought in massive orders by the big tech companies, and large reliable deliveries is a quality in itself.
AMD bought ATI a long time ago. ATI was the main competitor with NVidia in the discreet GPU (as in separate GPU card) market. Both AMD and Intel have integrated GPU (integrated in the CPU) parts. Intel has only recently gotten into the discreet market.
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