The past few years have been pretty unfortunate for Intel, even though I think they could have been a pretty decent player in the market. Their new Core Ultra

The past few years have been pretty unfortunate for Intel, even though I think they could have been a pretty decent player in the market. Their new Core Ultra chips have pretty okay performance and good energy efficiency, their P/E core design seems to make sense, even their entry into the dedicated graphics segment seemed like a good thing for the average consumer. But the 13/14th gen issues were a pretty major hit, I do have an Intel Arc card that I got for a really nice price (cheaper than similar AMD/Nvidia GPUs) but it's not without its own share of issues even with pretty decently developed drivers, people seem to have taken the Core Ultra being a bit of a sidegrade pretty badly and the pricing doesn't always seem all that competitive when it comes to CPUs (even the motherboards seem more expensive when compared to AMD). What a bummer. That said, when it comes to the consumer segment, even AMD doesn't seem to be doing all that well, for example their net revenue for gaming is down 69%: https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1224/amd-reports-third-quarter-2024-financial-results https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1224/am...