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"Why not 80% of the price of the comparable Intel part?" 1. Because Intel is about to significantly drop their prices in response to Ryzen. 2. Because AMD rea
by mrb 10y ago
"Why not 80% of the price of the comparable Intel part?"
1. Because Intel is about to significantly drop their prices in response to Ryzen.
2. Because AMD really wants to immediately hurt Intel's revenues as badly as possible.
3. Because AMD has such an uphill battle to regain mind share that it really needs to release a product that makes people realize that AMD now has the superior perf/$ product, beyond any doubt. If Ryzen was only priced 20% lower than Intel, many people/OEMs/etc would not be motivated enough to go AMD.
- agumonkey 10y ago3bis now Intel looks like a customer milking company with mild progress posturing as 'best effort'.
- untoreh 10y agoI am pretty sure after six iterations of "more of the same" most people realized this by now, we didn't need amd to know this, but surely to change the status quo in the cpu market...
- agumonkey 10y agoIt's hard to say when CPU's are approaching 10nm .. I've seen reports about how crazy hard it is to shrink silicon at that point so it was plausible.