> before Ryzen AMD was a failing company AMD was nearly dead a long time before the Ryzen. I did a comparison between them and Intel when I was in undergrad in

> before Ryzen AMD was a failing company AMD was nearly dead a long time before the Ryzen. I did a comparison between them and Intel when I was in undergrad in the 90s. My conclusion was long Intel and AMD would be lucky to survive. At that time, Intels innovation on top of their yields was simply unmatched. What saved AMD then was the Athlon, and their bet on 64bit extensions to x86 (instead of banking on the compiler to do all the work a la Itanic). The point is that fortunes can change quickly, and not all because a team or company is good or bad. Everyone makes bets with the information they have and hopes the market and technology move in their favor.