• frezik
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    14 hours ago

    It was also a big surprise when Intel just gave up. The industry was getting settled in for a David v Goliath battle, and then Goliath said this David kid was right.

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      Yes, I absolutely thought Intel would make their own, and AMD would lose the fight.
      But maybe Intel couldn’t do that, because AMD had patented it already, and whatever Intel did, it could be called a copy of that.

      Anyways it’s great to see AMD finally is doing well and finally is profitable. I just never expected Intel to fail as badly as they are? So unless they fight their way to profitability again, we may be in the same boat again as we were when Intel was solo on X86?

      But then again, maybe x86 is becoming obsolete, as Arm is getting ever more competitive.

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        Right, I think the future isn’t Intel v AMD, it’s AMD v ARM v RISC-V. Might be hard to break into the desktop and laptop space, but Linux servers don’t have the same backwards compatibility issues with x86. That’s a huge market.