If AMD’s Ryzen processors are so good and selling out, how does Intel still retain a higher market share?
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There’s a lot to unpack here. To begin: the fact the AMD is finally making competitive consumer grade CPU’s doesn’t mean that suddenly Intel’s are bad. Intel still makes extremely capable and reliable CPU’s.
Something else to consider here is that most of the talk around AMD’s product is centered around their consumer grade products. Gaming, workstation and laptop processors. This is only a fraction of the CPU marketplace and Intel makes a LOT of money selling industry grade CPU’s. These CPU’s are designed to run server farms and AI machine learning systems, etc. A single Intel Xenon CPU can cost over $14,000.
Intel has been bleeding market share in the consumer market at an accelerated rate, but this has less to do with the CPU’s themselves and more to do with manufacturing capability. Intel’s fabs currently can not output enough product to meet demand. As a result companies like Dell, Gateway, Toshiba, etc have been switching to AMD processors fabbed by TSMC simply because Intel doesn’t have any product to sell.
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