It's not really superior or inferior but different approaches with different levels of risk. Intel invests lots of engineer hours tying their layouts very inti

It's not really superior or inferior but different approaches with different levels of risk. Intel invests lots of engineer hours tying their layouts very intimately together the the particular process they're using to get out every scrap of performance. AMD does their best to modularize their design at every level to not spend engineering hours they don't have and to let them move to whatever process node they need to. When Intel's fabs were doing well they were dominant. When they ran into problems they were stuck in a way AMD wouldn't have been if TSMC had problems.