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They are still profitable, because there is a lot of remaining momentum in business markets and laptops. Those who have historically only bought intel and produ
by corty 6y ago
They are still profitable, because there is a lot of remaining momentum in business markets and laptops. Those who have historically only bought intel and produced intel like a dogma take some time to change their ways. But change is happening, and it will hurt Intel badly...
- jamiek88 6y agoYep. Just like RIM had their best few quarters post iPhone release.
- catalogia 6y agoLike Wiley E. Coyote running off the side of a cliff; he doesn't fall until he makes the mistake of looking down.
- mhh__ 6y agoIsn't there another issue in that AMD's processors may be better (for some value of better obviously) but their software and sales is not? It's anecdotal but I don't think I've ever seen any HPC documentation or case studies go anywhere near AMD tooling (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20647031 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20647031 contains a discussion of this - I've never needed to do that kind of work on an AMD CPU, so I couldn't comment myself).
- corty 6y agoAMDs software and HPC docs may be inferior. But especially in HPC, benchmarks and flops/€ are the deciding factor. You don't buy a bunch of processors from intel just because they also sell you a nice compiler (with a diminishing lead in performance) and tuning tools. Thats only a secondary or tertiary factor at best. Sales, dunno.