I think that Intel was ahead only because their decades of dirty tricks[e.g. 1,2] gave them a sort of artificial Monopoly. 1.https://betanews.com/2005/07/13/su

I think that Intel was ahead only because their decades of dirty tricks[e.g. 1,2] gave them a sort of artificial Monopoly. 1.https://betanews.com/2005/07/13/suit-intel-sabotaged-compiler-for-amd/ https://betanews.com/2005/07/13/suit-intel-sabotaged-compile... 2.https://www.techspot.com/article/1722-misleading-core-i9-9900k-benchmarks/ https://www.techspot.com/article/1722-misleading-core-i9-990... Now AMD is (rightfully?) pulling ahead.