Allen
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Rumor: Intel Says Biggest Advantage Against AMD is Their Financial Horsepower, Price Cuts and Discounts Cost Chipzilla Around $3 Billion
The $3.0 billion figure is the total cost Intel says they are willing to pay just to disrupt competition from AMD in 2019. This cost could include price cuts, discounts, etc for the current and upcoming lineup.
It was until 2017 that we were still getting [Intel] quad cores as flagship processors but [high AMD core counts] prompted Intel to push up their core counts
Intel tried to pull off some cheap marketing stunts by calling AMD's Infinity Fabric interconnect as glued-down dies, using dubious 3rd party benchmarks for CPU comparisons and telling reviewers to change their benchmarking methodologies that reflect their own 'real-world usage' standards.
In the end, all of this [competition] means good news for the consumer market which should resurge with many decent options for all tiers of users.
As noted several times in this thread, over a decade ago AMD had the best CPUs. Then too, Intel spent a lot to keep the market. However, back then, Intel paid manufacturers "under the table" to not use AMD products -- I.e. Intel broke the law at the expense of the consumer (proven in court). For that reason some of us consumers became AMD fans.
Now, AMD has the best CPUs again and Intel's "above board" market competition based on giving better value to the consumer is Good
