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

Even after the whole kerfuffle about Intel paying off OEMs? [0] They got some pretty huge fines for that.

But in all seriousness, I think that if Ryzen can hit the perf/watt numbers of Intel, companies will seriously look at purchasing AMD systems again.

Back in the NetBurst days, lots of people were buying Opteron servers because they kicked the pants off Intel. If AMD can prove their competitive with Intel again in the data center market, people will buy their chips.

Competition is always good, even for large enterprise, and if the TCO of an AMD Ryzen system becomes on par with Intel, enterprise will happily pit them against each other in a price war. Enterprise will absolutely buy from both.

[0] http://money.cnn.com/2010/07/23/technology/dell_intel/index....