'Scuse me? As much as I like AMD more, Intel is pretty competent: They design motherboards, and share their designs with their OEM's- much like reference GPU'

'Scuse me? As much as I like AMD more, Intel is pretty competent: They design motherboards, and share their designs with their OEM's- much like reference GPU's. They (via acquisition) have some of the better wired NIC's on the market (their features for sure beat Realtek's, and are more or less on par with Mellanox's.) [Intel doesn't] have a clue about how to design circuits or software. Them managing to even produce a single CPU and have it work would disprove that.