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By Fuad A. -- the originator of the Fudzilla site. He gives his big picture view of where the CPU competition is now.
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Intel post Ryzen times
AMD had a big day with its Ryzen launch which is the most important for AMD in the last decade. Many didn’t believe it would even happen, but AMD has a product that competes with Intel’s fastest. Now, one might wonder what is Intel planning to counter it and we have a few ideas. .
..Most press, analysts, Wall Street and industry didn’t believe that AMD had the power to make a comeback product, which is is exactly what Ryzen is. Have in mind that AMD is roughly 10 times smaller than Intel, and this is really a modern David vs Goliath fight. If David wins and forces Goliath (Chipzilla) drop its prices and stop charging ridiculous money for its CPU all hell is going to break loose. The high end that Intel launched, the Core i7 6950 just dropped in price on Amazon from original $1,743.00 to $1,627.99. This is stupid money for a CPU, even if it goes like the clappers with its 10 core CPU . This is all due to competition and suddenly Intel has it. Remember Nvidia’s $1500 Titan card, that was developed just because they can get away with it..
Once every few years, this time a whole decade, David wins the game. It is naive not to expect that AMD Ryzen won’t lose some benchmarks to Intel, but with great pricing and positioning, AMD is kick starting its way back to the market..
[Lengthy Analysis]
..AMD will win some market share, starting with Q1 and exploding in Q2 and onwards, at least [while] Intel doesn’t reduce its prices. But even with a significant price drop, we have thousands of readers that just want to buy AMD, and AMD only. The Ryzen performance scores will definitely help that decision and AMD’s path back to success. A year ago, AMD was at 1.8 USD and today at print time AMD is at $14,28 up $0.28 or 2.0 percent while Intel is at 36.07 USD down $0.45 or 1.23 percent.
As Fuad indicates: AMD is "bang for buck" -- but with a technically-competitive product. And: Competition is good (for all consumers)
In addition, at the AMD company site there are new WHQL drivers -- and a page with individual links to most of the "hardware dealers" around the world selling Ryzen on pre-order (for those on the Planet who want to shoot first and aim afterwards -- like me ).