Up until now AMD has benefitted from a great deal of animosity towards Intel by absolutely everyone in Silicon Valley including Google Facebook and Apple. It d

Up until now AMD has benefitted from a great deal of animosity towards Intel by absolutely everyone in Silicon Valley including Google Facebook and Apple. It didn't take much to realize that if you were building a laptop or building a data center intel was ripping you off. I know my employer (Google search) felt this way! From Haswell (4000-series) to the 12000 series I would say there was maybe one generation of improvement in between and six marketing generations where nothing got better nothing got faster but prices were outrageous -$600 for a slow hot MacBook cpu, and everything got new marketing names! So the industry has been desperate for an alternative to Intel since 2009 and AMD has finally delivered on the promise by building data center chips and adapting them to laptop use. I was an early AMD investor because of rx480 at $3.50 by the way but I sold out at $10.50. From here on AMD will truly have to earn its keep and things will be a lot tougher as they are no longer the scrappy underdog anymore!