To say things are looking rough for Intel would be an understatement of the century.
I don’t really like Intel’s CPUs and their overall computing ecosystem but I REALLY don’t want Intel to die.
A monopoly with AMD would still be terrible for everyone even if AMD’s been doing solid work. No one wins except for those at the top in monopolistic systems.
AMD has problems too, mostly on the graphics side, especially in the compute side.
Their compute APIs and efforts are quite reminiscent of Intel’s dysfunction and killing their server GPUs, especially combined with some unfortunate strategic and product decisions… Not to mention playing the VRAM cartel game with Nvidia when it’s not making them money, for some reason?
On the gaming side, repeatedly pushing downmarket and abandoning advantages (like the multi chip approach) is getting costly too.
What I’m saying is it feels like Radeon is slipping into executive dysfunction like Intel, though the CPU division is mostly fine for the moment.