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Certainly this is a great CPU, but there's also a question of pent up demand. Those in the market for a CPU without a clear deadline earlier this year would have decided to either buy an Intel CPU then, buy an AMD CPU then, or postpone the purchase until July when the new AMD chips were coming out.

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They're using numbers from one retailer. I imagine the chip really is selling well overall compared to past numbers, but there is a high risk this isn't a representative sample, especially the part about one model outselling all of Intel.

It's pretty much guaranteed it's not a representative sample of the total PC market but rather just the DIY/builder segment. The largest PC manufacturers (i.e. Lenovo, HP etc.) who ship the lion's share of the volume are slow to transition and they've only recently started adding AMD back as an option to their product lines, let alone really trying to move AMD boxes in volume.

Exactly. One German shop with boxes. I don't think this is where Intel make the majority of their money - which I presume is in supplying FANG plus Dell, HP etc etc.

either way, it's good for the market that people choose AMD over Intel.

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