AMD almost went bankrupt because of Intel's illegal behavior.
Intel received a small slap on the wrist, shrugged it off, and then proceeded to do nothing with their illegally-won cleared playing field (making what is perhaps the single biggest business blunder in human history - they effectively were left with zero competition, and squandered the opportunity).
Meanwhile, AMD got scrappy and found a way to bounce back, and today is slowly swallowing Intel whole, one inch at a time.
Does Intel have two decades of runway to recover? I guess we're going to all find out together...
I guess you're too young to remember the videos of an AMD CPU (Athlon) getting hot enough to fry eggs the moment a heatsink is removed.
For years, AMD survived as a cheaper solution to Intel. They got competitive with Opteron (and invented x86-64), while Intel was trying to wring out the last drops out of Netburst.
Then Intel Core came out and Opteron got back to being a cheaper but slower solution.
This would be good evidence if the goal was to not cook eggs quickly with a removed heat sink. It’s also a silly anecdote because it’s not like any processors of that class run especially hotter than others given peak loads. I’m sure they could both cook eggs.
The point you’ve given no argument for was that AMD didn’t suffer from Intels illegal practices. Not who cooks eggs better.
Intel received a small slap on the wrist, shrugged it off, and then proceeded to do nothing with their illegally-won cleared playing field (making what is perhaps the single biggest business blunder in human history - they effectively were left with zero competition, and squandered the opportunity).
Meanwhile, AMD got scrappy and found a way to bounce back, and today is slowly swallowing Intel whole, one inch at a time.
Does Intel have two decades of runway to recover? I guess we're going to all find out together...