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I'll forever be baffled at people treating one of the biggest semiconductor companies in the world which has historically released products which easily outlast

I'll forever be baffled at people treating one of the biggest semiconductor companies in the world which has historically released products which easily outlast the rest of the components in the system as some fly-by-night alternative to Intel. This sentiment also caused my family to get a Pentium4 over the superior Athlon64 years back and I'm still salty.

klingonopera 7y ago
...and the Athlon XP in early P4 days (Willamette and Northwood). ...and the Athlon in P3 days, but that was a closer call. ...and (IIRC?) the K6 in P2 days, but that was before my time. In retrospect, AMD's fallout past the Athlon64- and prior to the Ryzen-era is actually the odd one out in the company's history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_microprocessors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_microprocessors