Nice, the prove that their CPUs are good, same cannot be said about the gpus.
Wish they could pull this off in GPU’s. We need Nvidia to slip up a generation or two.
AMD’s CPUs have been blasting for years. Crazy to think they’re still only around 20% market share…
I think the majority of CPUs is sold through prebuilds, laptops and workstations. These tend to come with Intel as the default option. A lot of office pcs and laptops don’t even come with an i3 but rather a Celeron or Pentium.
I used to work there, their biggest problem internally is there’s no real process for issue resolution. When partners (like Microsoft) reported issues with our CPUs/APUs/GPUs (not the semi custom folks like XBox), there was a lot of finger pointing to everyone else, and shrugs as to who to talk to, while at Intel and NVidia, it was a very definitive process which helped a lot to track and resolve issues.
Makes a lot of sense, here in my country AM4 platform pretty much became the default when it comes to every category, you can get Zen 2 R5 3600 for entry level or Zen 3 R5 5600 for midrange, or if you want high end R7 5800X3D, all of them can be slotted into AM4 where you can slap them on a cheap ass $30 A320 and they will still work perfectly just fine.
I wish AM5 in the future does the same thing because it’s pretty much the reason why they are getting popular and will continue to do so if AMD sticks by that tradition.
50/50% would be great for competition :)