[adrian_b]

While I mostly agree with what you say, I am quite happy that AMD uses their worse server chiplets for Ryzens, because this makes possible the assembling of very cheap but high-performance servers using e.g. 9950X, which has a much better performance per dollar than any Epyc or Xeon CPU or than any datacenter-oriented GPU.

Such cheap servers are the right choice for small businesses and for individuals, for whom the great increases in the prices of the server CPUs that have happened starting in 2017, since the launch of the Skylake Server CPUs, have made them either unaffordable or not worthwhile.

Because Intel cripples all their consumer CPUs, they cannot really compete with AMD for this purpose, except for some very restricted applications, e.g. for a server which does nothing else but code compilation, or for a server which does nothing else but hosting a Web server. Even for such applications, buying one of the very few motherboards for Intel that support ECC memory is likely to increase the price well over the AMD solution.