Is there any market segment they are currently competitive in?
I can't think of one.
Even in their darkest days, AMD was winning the "$100-300 desktop with an integrated GPU" segment by a large price-performance margin (vs Atom processors).
I can't think of one.
Even in their darkest days, AMD was winning the "$100-300 desktop with an integrated GPU" segment by a large price-performance margin (vs Atom processors).
Crypto mining is out, but enterprising gamers can now defray their costs by operating a steam turbine with waste heat.
How is that possible? They have better thermal design or something?
These are about the most reliable benchmarks you can find on the internet:
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/intel-announce-13th-gen-rap...
Intel is winning mainstream CPUs right now. Partly because AMD priced their new chips too high at launch, and partly because total system cost for AMD is higher because the motherboards were also more expensive, and you had to use more expensive DDR5.
AMD has been cutting prices, motherboards are getting cheaper, and DDR5 memory is falling. So the difference is less and less. But for the last year or so Intel was best choice for a new system, though the AMD 5800X3D was solid as a pure gaming value build. (Still is, actually.)
I am actually a little confused how Intel fabs can be considered far behind TSMC but their desktop consumer CPUs have been better or at least roughly equal to AMD in the last year. Is Intel just making lower profit margins and eating the cost to compete?
I would certainly be interested in buying some, just not in the form of the lowend laptops they are currently in.
At a previous job I had to spec out some hardware procurement on the order of a million dollars over two years, and all of my compute was based around AMD EPYC. The amount of fighting and arguing that this resulted in was wild. These were all still supermicro boxes, still from the same trusted vendor we were using, but I had to spell out many times that we were basically getting double the compute for what we would have got otherwise.
Worst part was when the first shipment arrived and nothing booted and worked and turned it out be a bad batch of drives from micron that had bad controllers, the same ignoramus used it as a "I told you so" moment, even though the vendor confirmed it was a micron issue and immediately shipped over replacements.