[bcrosby95]

> They have delayed time and time again new chips and designs on purpose because they haven’t had the competition to be go up against.

This just isn't true. When Ryzen first came out Intel was still ahead in many use cases, especially if $$ was no object to you. But after several years AMD is now taking the crown from intel in all areas they compete in. If they really had some magical faster tech Intel would have released it years ago, much less this year, but they haven't.

Instead they announce the same old chips then hook them up to industrial strength cooling units to make it look like they can compete with AMD. This isn't the behavior of a company that is just biding its time.

[ekianjo]

AMD seems to have supply issues though. You can have the best chips on the market, if they are out of stock you don't really compete.

[vonmoltke]

Whatever supply issues AMD has, I can still get their chips at or below MSRP from a number of vendors. The latest generation of Intel chips, on the other hand, are hard to find and selling at a significant premium where they are available.

[vlan0]

That's not unique to AMD. Intel also goes through periods of supply issues.

They've even had processors that basically only shipped on paper.

[wincy]

Yeah, like good luck trying to source a 9900KS for anywhere near MSRP, which was just a polished revised 9900K so Intel could still technically claim the “gaming crown” from AMD.

[code_biologist]

Have you tried to get your hands on any of the Intel HEDT parts? There's little to no supply and the supply that does exist is heavily marked up. 3950Xs and Threadrippers are in stock everywhere.

[KSS42]

AMD’s supply issues have improved significantly since Apple is moving from 7nm to 5nm this year. AMD is now TSMC’s top 7nm customer.

https://twitter.com/chiakokhua/status/1258393158766886913 https://twitter.com/chiakokhua/status/1258393160784330754

[gowld]

Intel ran out of 9th gen chips started fishing Quality Control reject chips out of the trash and selling them as F chips (9100F etc), which are chips that failed GPU quality controls and so got GPU disabled. credit for using honest label - F for F grade GPU.