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Was just looking at the best selling CPUs on Amazon.com. 14 out of the top 16 best selling CPUs are AMD Ryzen. This is not just at the low end. The Ryzen 7s and 9s are also outselling higher end Intel CPUs. How did Intel get so far behind ? Apathy mostly and thinking that they could keep charging top dollar and stay on top forever due to their past dominance. The $490 i9-9900K comes in at #12 on the list. Even that will fall lower in 2020. Intel had really offer better value with their April 2020 10th gen desktop CPU release. I really think that Apple is losing it's patience with Intel and could possibly make a switch if Intel doesn't start competing again. For example, the new i9-3900X has 12 cores and 24 threads, is unlocked, has an included cooler and sells for only $3.50 more than an 8 core 16 thread i9-9900K. Go figure.
From wccftech website:
From wccftech website:
AMD's Ryzen 3000 series was released back in July 2019 and marked the company's historical transition to a sub 14/16nm process (namely the 7nm node). For the first time in over three decades, Intel had lost its process lead over the x86 industry and AMD was the company to profit the most of it. AMD's 7nm processors proved not only more than capable of matching (and at times beating) Intel processors in performance but offered the same at a much lower price point.
AMD's use of predatory pricing seems to quickly be bearing fruit as it snatches away more and more market share from Intel. While Intel remains in the lead, AMD has snatched back up to 40% market share in the latest PassMark report (caution: this is just one data point and based only on devices running PassMark) and this is something we haven't seen since 2006 - almost a full 14 years ago.
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