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by masklinn 3408 days ago
> No one got ever fired for buying Intel

Exactamently. Even if Ryzen has a way better performance/price ratio than Intel, it's a risk:

* risk of losing favour with Intel or vendors (aka getting "renegotiated contract")

* support risk

* less coherent hardware risk

* software compatibility risk

Ryzen is lot of risk, and the reward is not huge because at the end of the day CPU is a pretty minor investment. Unless Intel completely fucks up a generation as they did with P4 few company will be willing to take that risk. Hell even then most companies remained on the Intel ship.