[HN Gopher] AMD continues to chip away at Intel's x86 market share
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AMD continues to chip away at Intel's x86 market share
Author : speckx
Score : 50 points
Date : 2025-11-15 20:35 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| snovymgodym wrote:
| (On desktop systems)
| cmovq wrote:
| On data center as well. I think AMD rightly decided to focus on
| larger chips for data center instead of consumer laptops where
| margins are tiny in comparison and growth has been slow for a
| few years.
| jauntywundrkind wrote:
| In general AMD seems to not want anything to do with down-
| market parts.
|
| They still have great laptop & desktop parts, in fact they're
| essentially the same parts as servers (with less Core Complex
| Die (CCD) chiplets and simpler IO Die)! Their embedded chips,
| mobile chips are all the same chiplets too!!
|
| And there's some APU parts that are more consumer focused,
| which have been quite solid. And now Strix Halo, which were
| it not for DDR5 prices shooting to the moon, would be
| incredible prosumer APU.
|
| Where AMD is just totally missing is low end. There's nothing
| like the Intel N100/N97/N150, which is a super ragingly
| popular chip for consumer appliances like NAS. I'm hoping
| their Sound Wave design is real, materializes, offers
| something a bit more affordable than their usual.
|
| The news at the end of October was that their new low end
| line up is going to be old Zen2 & Zen3 chips. That's mostly
| fine, still an amazing chip, just not quite as fast &
| efficient. But not a lot no small AMD parts.
| https://wccftech.com/amd-prepares-rebadged-
| zen-2-ryzen-10-an...
|
| It's crazy how AMD has innovated by building far far less
| designs than the past. There's not a bunch of different chips
| designed for different price points, the whole range across
| all markets (for cpus) is the same core, the same ~3 designs,
| variously built out.
|
| I do wish AMD would have a better low end story. The Steam
| Deck is such a killer machine and no one else can make
| anything with such a clear value, because no one else can buy
| a bunch of slightly weird old chips for cheap, have to buy
| much more expensive mainline chips. I really wish there were
| some smaller interesting APUs available.
| init2null wrote:
| The Intel video encoding pipeline alone is worth going
| Intel on the low end. Those low-power devices simply need
| better transcoding support than AMD can currently provide.
| jauntywundrkind wrote:
| How so?
|
| Almost every benchmark of I've seen of encoder
| performance has shown Nvidia top, AMD not far behind, and
| Intel trialing _significantly._ I think for one of the
| codecs (h264, h265, av1) there 's an exception somewhere?
| https://youtu.be/Ee6uWsANDTU
|
| I'd love more/better info, but this YouTube review is at
| least somewhat up to date. Doesn't focus on streaming,
| but I was seeing similar rankings (albeit mostly older
| reviews) for streaming.
| iknowstuff wrote:
| Damn I love the strix halo. the framework desktop idles at
| 10W and has modern standby consuming less than 1W, but
| fully connected so an xbox controller can wake it over
| bluetooth etc.
|
| My 3080 sffpc eats 70W idle and 400W under load.
|
| Game performance is roughly the same from a normie point of
| view.
| rubatuga wrote:
| How did you get Bluetooth wake working?!
| zackify wrote:
| I have a 7840u framework and it idles around 7-8w with
| not much happening.
| embedding-shape wrote:
| I don't get the feeling that they've focused anywhere in
| particular (and maybe rightly so), they're in everything from
| low-powered consoles to high powered workstations and data
| centers, and seemingly everywhere in-between those too.
| brian-armstrong wrote:
| Windows 10 EOL is probably helping to churn a lot of aging Intel
| chips out here. I can't imagine anyone in the know is building a
| new desktop with an Intel anything in it these days, either.
| Neywiny wrote:
| Goodness I still can't stand his articles. For me, my
| understanding of the situation was that everything before maybe
| Ryzen 2-3000 was like "meh, it's good enough". You can actually
| see a bump in Q1 2017 when Ryzen first came out. I really hoped
| to see annotated graphs, long term analysis, etc.
| hereme888 wrote:
| This could swing so hard with sudden geopolitical triggers. I
| also see Intel positioning itself very strongly for its next
| generation chips.
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