> This is a neck-and-neck race, with AMD a fan favorite, and year over year changes in leadership. > (summarizing: Intel best CPU, Best mid and budget entries,

> This is a neck-and-neck race, with AMD a fan favorite, and year over year changes in leadership. > (summarizing: Intel best CPU, Best mid and budget entries, so winner in 3/5 categories. And what does it mean to give AMD "Best high performance" and "Highest performance?"). Intel as much more brand recognition than AMD. So calling AMD fan favorite is kinda strange to me. There are only two x86-64 chip designer right now, and from a pure market strategy it doesn't make sense for AMD to offer much more value to customer than what they can get from the only competition in town. If you want to really understand how intel is strugling you have to did into the execution speed of both companies, the profit margin on each SKU etc... etc... Intel is only neck and neck with AMD if you don't look at things like power efficiency and how much money they are actually making per chip. > In particular, Intel still has a 5x lead on AMD in server market, which, of course, is a pretty big market. This a function of market inertia more than anything. From a technical perspective AMD Zen 4 workstation and server offering seem to be much better these days.