Subj : Re: Intel: Once mighty, now falling?
To   : Nightfox
From : Accession
Date : Wed May 07 2025 19:33:11

Hey Nightfox!

On Tue, May 06 2025 23:54:39 -0500, you wrote:

 > Over the past several years, I keep hearing about how Intel is 
 > struggling in the market now.  Since 2020 or so, it seems AMD has had 
 > a steady advantage with their processors over Intel. I remember 
 > seeing some benchmarks in 2020 showing AMD's flagship desktop 
 > processor was beating Intel's flagship desktop processor in many 
 > areas. Not to say Intel is making bad stuff, but it seems AMD has 
 > been fairly steadily popular with a lot of PC builders for several 
 > years.

I'm not sure it was that long ago, but it has definitely been proven that the X3D line of AMD CPUs have been better than Intel's competition. Seems the first (5800X3D) was released some time in 2022. But AMD was probably creeping up for awhile before that.

 > At any rate, I've heard a lot of news about Intel recently that makes 
 > it sound like they're just not doing very well.  For a while now, 
 > I've had a feeling they've had bad management, and sometimes it seems 
 > like Intel doesn't know where they want to go.  Like many tech 
 > companies, they've had a lot of layoffs as they ramp up projects and 
 > then decide to cancel them, buy other companies & sell them, etc..

Sounds like they're going to bounce back. I think they're already starting to make Xeon chips (server rated) with that X3D tech, so if they end up bringing that to the normal consumer market, their fans will probably jump back on the bandwagon.

 > As Intel has been a behemoth in the computer industry for so long, it 
 > feels a bit surreal to me to see them seemingly fading away, 
 > particularly since I worked there for about 8 years..

I'd probably consider it a hiccup. Their latest chips are crap compared to AMDs, but I'm sure they'll figure it out at some point and fix it. Granted, it could still hinder their market for at least a chip generation if a lot of their fans switched to the latest AMD chips and go a few years without buying Intel again.

Regards,
Nick

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