Intel pretends to compete with AMD at the consumer levelAMD unveils a 32-core 64-thread consumer CPU at Computex 2018. Intel fakes it.
Imagine you're Intel. The standard bearer. The crême de la crême for server farms and mainstream computing. Our beloved Macs now all run on Intel. As do the majority of consumer level desktops and portables. But it seems that Intel's prominence at the top has made it a bit complacent. A bit too comfortable.
Ryzen
Round 2
A closer look
The after-effects
Final comments
Ryzen
Some time last year, the underdog, AMD released its new generation of CPU architecture called Ryzen. And it was good. Really good. Not only did Ryzen have excellent IPC performance just short of Intel's offerings, it also added more cores for equal or even lower cost to the consumer than Intel's counterparts. If you were only a gamer, Intel was still king. However, most of us use our computers for more than just gaming, and AMD's Ryzen had Intel beat on many fronts. Things like streaming, rendering, and compiling all were ...
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Intel pretends to compete with AMD at the consumer level
