Intel & AMD Duopoly Mini-Arc

[Intel & AMD Duopoly Mini-Arc]

We’ve yelled at Intel, now we’ll yell at AMD to be fair. AMD has been innovating left and right in the PC space: their Ryzen CPUs have been displacing Intel’s hold of the market, and their (RDNA2-based) GPUs have been giving NVIDIA a kick in the pants for their pricing. …So wait, why are we complaining about them?

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Sources:

• Ars Technica, 10 August 2021, “AMD RX 6600XT review: A sad trombone noise of a “$379” 2021 GPU“
• PCMag, 10 June 2021, “Inside the GPU Shortage: Why You Still Can’t Buy a Graphics Card“
• ExtremeTEch, 12 May 2021, “AMD’s Market Share Surges on Steam and in Servers, Shrinks Overall“
• PC Gamer, 27 January 2021, “AMD says CPU and GPU supply will be tight until second half of 2021“
• TechRadar, 5 January 2021, “AMD overtakes Intel in desktop CPU market share for the first time in 15 years“
• PCMag, 18 November 2020, “AMD’s Radeon RX 6800 Cards Sell Out Instantly, Sparking Cries of ‘Paper Launch’“
• PC Gamer, 9 October 2020, “Ryzen 5000 pricing shows that AMD isn’t the cheap alternative anymore“

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[Intel & AMD Duopoly Mini-Arc]

Oh, Intel. Once a powerful CPU manufacturer… okay, they still are- but Intel has historically not tried terribly hard to improve their products. Does that sound harsh? Well, we here at Tech Tho(ugh)ts think they deserve it, and we’ll start that explanation.. right now. Welcome to our first mini-arc, the Intel & AMD Duopoly.

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Sources:

• Gamers Nexus @ Youtube.com, 4 August 2021, “Intel Ditches “Nanometers,” Renames 10nm to “7” & 7nm to “4””
• Ars Technica, 17 November 2020, “A history of Intel vs. AMD desktop performance, with CPU charts galore“
• The Verge, 26 July 2021, “Intel has a new architecture roadmap and a plan to retake its chipmaking crown in 2025“
• Tom’s Hardware, 23 July 2020, “Intel’s 7nm is Broken, Company Announces Delay Until 2022, 2023“
• PCWorld, 1 May 2019, “Should you buy a laptop with 8th-gen or 9th-gen Core CPU? It’s all about cores and clocks“
• Rock Paper Shotgun, 24 April 2019, “Intel Core CPUs: Everything we know about Intel’s 8th and 9th Gen Coffee Lake Refresh processors“
• Tom’s Hardware, 23 April 2019, “Intel Unveils Full Desktop Coffee Lake Refresh Lineup“

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