AMD Threadripper Delidded, with a Multi-Core Surprise Under the Hood

Well that and paying/forcing vendors not to place AMD chips in laptops. A practice Intel lost a lawsuit for and owes AMD billions that are still unpaid.

>> Their chipset designs were inferior to Intel's but they had great CPUs.

In my experiance that is false.

the Space heaters what where the P4's where unstable and had continual problems compared to the Athons. I almost never had a problem out of a AMD based system but Intel based was a constant stability battle

The Core line up changed that but it was not until after the Core2Duo's that Intel really started to surpass AMD

>If there was a monopoly over the last decade it was only because AMD wasn't producing a competitive offering. It was not because of marketplace abuses like Intel's been accused of in the past.

This is also objectively false for any market outside the DIY/Gamer space. Intel made known, and proven anti-competitive deals with many OEM PC builders to ensure they would not offer AMD Chips to their customers

Ref: 2010 FTC Anti-Trust Settlement

Then you have the whole Patent battle of x86 itself which created the Douoply of AMD/Intel excluding all others from the market which Intel would have loved to have to itself asserting patent rights on the various x86 technologies.

So no you can not say that Intel is on top only because they have/had an objectively better product, though out Intel entire existence they have attempted to everything in their power (and some of it proved to not be so legal) to kill any competition to their market share not with innovation but with contracts, patents and other uses of the legal system

They continue this pattern today with their not so veiled threat against Qualcomm and MS over having x86 apps run on ARM while at the same time attempting to Sue Qualcomm for their aggressive enforcement of patents and restricted licensing of same

Intel could still use better TIM, or even the fancy liquid metal stuff. The fact that you can gain massive thermal benefits just from swapping it out with something better than the stuff they're using on a $1000+ CPU is pretty terrible. Even from a business perspective, a big temp drop is pretty marketable, especially for laptops where I'm sure they're doing the same thing. It's like buying a Ferrari and having it come with Arizonan tires which are glued on.

I feel like I'm starting to notice this as well because my i5-4670k is idling around 40 °C on an H100i even after clearing out trapped dust

I wasn't implying it was against the community guidelines.

What I was suggesting was that new hardware always comes out and it's always bigger/faster (and even 2x improvement isn't even historically that much). Are the people upvoting this because they think every single new piece of hardware is newsworthy, or that there's something special here (e.g. they feel intel has a monopoly and are invested in AMDs success), or are they shill accounts ?

Well I'm skeptical, but it was a genuine question. I am doubly skeptical that the best response to skepticism is downvoting rather than articulating a response.