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Which buyers exactly? Enthusiasts seem to be switching overwhelmingly to AMD: e.g. Mindfactory having AMD at 81% now. [0] Anecdotally, there seems to be a lot o

Which buyers exactly? Enthusiasts seem to be switching overwhelmingly to AMD: e.g. Mindfactory having AMD at 81% now. [0] Anecdotally, there seems to be a lot of resentment towards Intel for their shenanigans, I don't personally know anyone who's even considering Intel for their own builds. It's a different matter for laptops where consumers have much less say on the topic, of course. [0] https://m.imgur.com/gallery/9edvLSn https://m.imgur.com/gallery/9edvLSn

Already__Taken 7y ago
Now that a large segment has swapped to AMD for performance they're also going to see the light about not getting screwed by the cpu socket changing in intels platforms. This is a big deal IMO.
delfinom 7y ago
>It's a different matter for laptops where consumers have much less say on the topic, of course. The rumor is Microsoft's Surface Laptop announced today will be AMD which will be the beginning of the end for Intel as OEMs will fall in line.
- llampx 7y ago
  I wonder if Intel will resort to dirty tricks like last time, when the Athlon64 came out and offered better performance than the equivalent Intel cpus
jumpingmice 7y ago
I think he means relevant buyers, like Google and Apple etc. People who order their CPUs by the cubic meter.
- xbmcuser 7y ago
  Google is also looking at AMD for it servers. As AMD is beating Intel with the current generation so badly in all cost metrics that using Intel is wasting money.
  - jumpingmice 7y ago
    Google has been "looking at" AMD for decades, including rolling out an enormous fleet of AMD machines spanning several generations. They have a big platforms group and plenty of engineers to dedicate to trying to make the TCO pencil for any platform, even POWER and ARM. The existence of a new AMD part that could actually work is not a new development in the relationship between Google and Intel.
- hajile 7y ago
  Google's planning on using semi-custom designs for their new gaming platform. AWS is already ordering and using tons of server chips and Google doesn't seem too far behind.

Already__Taken 7y ago

Now that a large segment has swapped to AMD for performance they're also going to see the light about not getting screwed by the cpu socket changing in intels platforms. This is a big deal IMO.

delfinom 7y ago

>It's a different matter for laptops where consumers have much less say on the topic, of course. The rumor is Microsoft's Surface Laptop announced today will be AMD which will be the beginning of the end for Intel as OEMs will fall in line.

llampx 7y ago
I wonder if Intel will resort to dirty tricks like last time, when the Athlon64 came out and offered better performance than the equivalent Intel cpus

jumpingmice 7y ago

I think he means relevant buyers, like Google and Apple etc. People who order their CPUs by the cubic meter.

xbmcuser 7y ago
Google is also looking at AMD for it servers. As AMD is beating Intel with the current generation so badly in all cost metrics that using Intel is wasting money.
- jumpingmice 7y ago
  Google has been "looking at" AMD for decades, including rolling out an enormous fleet of AMD machines spanning several generations. They have a big platforms group and plenty of engineers to dedicate to trying to make the TCO pencil for any platform, even POWER and ARM. The existence of a new AMD part that could actually work is not a new development in the relationship between Google and Intel.
hajile 7y ago
Google's planning on using semi-custom designs for their new gaming platform. AWS is already ordering and using tons of server chips and Google doesn't seem too far behind.