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There's no need to worry about laptop & mobile CPU market share. It's a very low-margin market, and Intel has such deep pockets that they can bleed competitors
by kijin 7y ago
There's no need to worry about laptop & mobile CPU market share. It's a very low-margin market, and Intel has such deep pockets that they can bleed competitors out if they need to. What AMD needs is server CPU market share. As more computation moves to the cloud, that's where all the money is. It's also in the datacenter where AMD's price/performance and performance/watt advantage makes the most difference for potential customers.
Now that AMD has a solid foot in the enthusiast mindshare with Ryzen and ThreadRipper, it's time for them to strenghthen the EPYC lineup and seriously compete with Xeon.
- hyperbovine 7y agoThis. I recently made the leap (financed by work, of course) to "server grade" hardware after years of cobbling together my own boxes from consumer parts. The price difference is phenomenal. Like eating at McDonald's vs. catering a wedding. The idea that essentially one company had this market locked up for all those years boggles the mind.