[jvanderbot]

I didn't say marketshare makes them the best. I said there were lots of metrics, that on any given metric, AMD and Intel trade first place spots frequently, and marketshare implies there's something special still about Intel.

[hedora]

The only metric I could tease out of that where they are close is single core performance on high wattage enthusiast parts.

That’s exactly where the Unix processors were the year before Intel put them out of business.

(Except the old Unix machines also won by large margins on multithreading and Intel isn’t winning there anymore).