Man. In the 90’s I saw Intel as “Toyota” and AMD as “Hyundai”.
Then again, who thought the “Honda car” was anything special? But look at the company now. Intel may become Oldsmobile.
AMD is a far better line of processors, now.
It astounds me that Intel can’t get smaller process technology working. Maybe Intel needs to step up and license the technology from IBM/Samsung/TSMC.
I have been out of the game for a bit, but loved AMD chipsets.
AMD has had its ups and downs. The Ryzen CPUs rooooool (sorry, but I heard that) and are also in short supply, so on balance, not much of a threat to Intel in the short- and middle- term.
AMD was building a giant fab in, hmm, I think Maryland, some years (less than ten?) ago, their finances cratered for a while, that was cancelled, they couldn't quite finish up their then-current chip development, then they got new talent, including that CEO (Asian, engineer, two X chromosomes), and started to turn it around.
They rely on TSMC I think (same as Apple), which has the best manufacturing tech now, but doesn't have the kind of capacity (yet) that Intel has.
I was intrigued with RISC back then. Made sense; let the software do the heavy lifting. Then again, at the time software sucked and hardware was slow. Better to let the silicone do the heavy lifting with the clock speed available.
CISC can’t keep up. And RISC is more flexible.
“Then again, who thought the “Honda car” was anything special? But look at the company now. Intel may become Oldsmobile.”
IBM certainly is.
In the late 90s AMD has a far better product... then they got too full of themselves and lost it all..