Intel did not have a lot of competition in recent years so why design for maximum yield when you can just slap a high price tag on the thing? AMD on the other h

Intel did not have a lot of competition in recent years so why design for maximum yield when you can just slap a high price tag on the thing? AMD on the other hand needed to assume that they would not be able to compete in raw performance so what's left is being as cost effective as possible.