Wow... I really hope this is true and that it's a sign that AMD have their mojo back. Partly because I have a sentimental favoritism towards AMD, and partly because Intel (and Nvidia) need competition.
I hope this puts AMD in stable footing for many years to come. Having newer and faster chips is great, but whats even better is long term competition in this space.
This is how Intel should have dealt with Ryzen; instead of dismissing the competition. Smart move from NVIDIA though I'm still going to be keeping an eyeball on Vega.
I really want AMD to recover. If they die, Intel will be monopolistic, prices will increase and kiss innovation goodbye. I think their biggest mistake was buying ATI and now they have to compete with 2 giants Intel and Nvedia. God Bless them.
Way to go AMD. Let's hope this shock will make Intel wake up and force the giant to innovate. As I see it, it's good for us consumers since the competition means we'll be getting even better CPUs and GPUs in the near future.
Side-note: both anandtech.com and archive.org are overloaded at the moment!!!
I'm tempted to buy some AMD now after this gigantic one day plummet. While I'm not sure AMD will ever be able to compete with Intel in the enterprise cpu market (cloud providers), NVIDIA and GPUs are looking like a solid core business for them.
Everybody keeps on hyping and saying Ryzen, but again... I am very skeptical major enterprises will make the switch from Intel.
With Intel stuck in process hell for a while longer, I primarily hope AMD can gain ground on Nvidia. They are pushing a lot of innovation and gaining market dominance, both in the ML/GPGPU space and gaming (with ray tracing, upscaling, etc).
We need some competition to keep prices low and innovation high medium to long term.
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