There's other considerations at play: - Engineering support when you're designing a new motherboard - CPU SKUs with different use conditions. Intel Industria

There's other considerations at play: - Engineering support when you're designing a new motherboard - CPU SKUs with different use conditions. Intel Industrial rated CPUs are rated for 24/7 operation, 100% duty cycle for 10 years. I'm not aware if AMD has an equivalent. - Long product support - CPU SKUs that are "guaranteed" to be around for X number of years. As as example, some Icelake SKUs are planned to be supported for 10-15 years. Let's use an x-ray scanner as an example. The x-ray scanner mfg needs a computer inside the machine to help process info and display images. The x-ray equipment has an intended lifespan of at least 5 years and they plan to sell/service this equipment for at least 10 years. The mfg wants to use an embedded computer that's going to be commercially available for a long time so they don't have to re-engineer and re-certify their machine. This is one reason why you see some "stickiness" with Intel.