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Intel has about 10x the revenue and 10x the employees of AMD. AMD is doing well lately, but if times get tough Intel can survive for a very long time just on in
by twblalock 6y ago
Intel has about 10x the revenue and 10x the employees of AMD. AMD is doing well lately, but if times get tough Intel can survive for a very long time just on inertia, just like IBM and HP are surviving. AMD probably can't.
Intel also has plenty of time to get their mojo back if they still have the drive to succeed. A lot of very smart people work there. They just need leadership that can execute. In a lot of ways Intel was a victim of its own success, having a virtual monopoly on good CPUs until Ryzen came out. Leadership got lazy. Leadership needs to fix that. It's not fair to say that the engineering culture there is dead.
- NonEUCitizen 6y agoAMD has been around since 1969 and has survived rough times just fine.
- pjmlp 6y agoYeah, but they need those Intel patents.
- Grazester 6y agoAs Intel needs theirs!
- pjmlp 6y agoWithout AMD's access to Intel patents we would all be using Itaniums by now, and I doubt AMD can manage to ever drive Intel to the ground.
- formerly_proven 6y agoFor all we know Itanium was never meant to trickle down.
- pjmlp 6y agoServers were where the money was to reboot a CPU linage.
- dragontamer 6y agoWithout Intel's access to AMD64-bit patents, Intel wouldn't have anything better than a 32-bit Pentium4. Intel and AMD have each other in a MAD (mutually assured destruction) patent hold. If either pulls either patent portfolio from each other, they both die dramatic deaths. Intel owns 32-bit x86 patents... while AMD owns the 64-bit patents. Modern x64 chips cannot function unless both parts are together.
- pjmlp 6y agoAMD64 would never happen without Intel licenses, so Intel wouldn't never need to worry to access to something that legally could never happen. So how are those AVX instructions support going on AMDs?
- dragontamer 6y agoI'd assume the RAX register is more imporant, and in more widespread use than the YMM0 register.