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by ethbr1 684 days ago
> AMD got their act together, and with significantly fewer resources ended up totally leap-frogging Intel in nearly all CPU metrics. How did this not happen at Intel after all these years?

AMD outsourced foundry issues to TSMC.

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And so could Intel if they wanted. Instead, they seem more interested in designing yet another socket and asking everyone to upgrade all of their hardware for a moderate performance bump...
>Instead, they seem more interested in designing yet another socket and asking everyone to upgrade all of their hardware for a moderate performance bump...

Who's upgrading their cpus after 1-2 generations?

AMD folks, because you can use the same socket for many generations of CPU's, providing a drop-in 10-minute upgrade...