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by onli 1692 days ago
> Someone would have a chip out with great reviews, and then the new Intel architecture would ship and everyone would forget about it.

What time period or space are you talking about here? Because that did not happen in the last 10 years for consumer and server processors. The last decade saw AMD with the FX processors failing to be competitive, at first single threaded, over time also multi-threaded and in performance per watt. Then after many years Ryzen came out and was at first just surprisingly competitive, then plainly better in every metric. And that's where we are now. The whole back-and-forth you are describing did not happen at all, and there were only AMD and Intel anyway, not "someone" or multiple players.

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They were behind for a few years in the beginning of 2000's in the P3 - Core 2 era.