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> What's left for Intel?

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste..., about 80% to 90% of the desktop and laptop computer market (counting the share of Windows + Linux devices in these categories). Intel won't starve.



Which is the result of AMD not having been able to compete for close to a decade.

Expect to see these numbers change drastically over the next years as Zen 2 finally turned the ship around on that by not only making AMD CPUs competitive, but in many cases the straight up better, yet still more affordable, choice.

Which is already reflected in current trends: Barely any consumer-level hardware outlets still recommend Intel builds, which is down to lack of PCIe 4.0 support and only very expensive Intel CPUs being able to outperform AMD CPUs in fringe-use cases like single-core performance in gaming, while still demanding a hefty price-premium.

A premium that many people are simply not willing to pay for anymore.

As a small data point just look at the top 10 CPUs on price comparison websites, like German pcgameshardware [0]: 8 out of the top 10 CPUs are all AMD.

Which will not mean that Intel will starve, but it very much puts them into the position that AMD has been in these past years, that of the underdog fighting an uphill battle to regain relevancy in the consumer sector.

[0] https://preisvergleich.pcgameshardware.de/?o=4




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