It's amazing how far Intel has fallen.
The 10nm debacle exposed how far they've fallen behind on fabs to the point that they're outsourcing to TSMC. Like, how humiliating must that be?
Intel completely missed the mobile revolution. They had a stake in that race but sold it (ie XScale).
Intel's product segmentation is bewildering. They've also kept features "enterprise" only to prop up high server chip prices to the detriment to computing as a whole, most notably ECC support.
And on the server front, which I'm sure is what's keeping them in business now, they face an existential threat in the form of ARM.
Intel had clearly shifted to a strategy of extracting as much money as possible from their captive market. I'm not sure price cuts here are necessarily about AMD but more than their previously captive market now has more options in general.
How the mighty have fallen.
The 10nm debacle exposed how far they've fallen behind on fabs to the point that they're outsourcing to TSMC. Like, how humiliating must that be?
Intel completely missed the mobile revolution. They had a stake in that race but sold it (ie XScale).
Intel's product segmentation is bewildering. They've also kept features "enterprise" only to prop up high server chip prices to the detriment to computing as a whole, most notably ECC support.
And on the server front, which I'm sure is what's keeping them in business now, they face an existential threat in the form of ARM.
Intel had clearly shifted to a strategy of extracting as much money as possible from their captive market. I'm not sure price cuts here are necessarily about AMD but more than their previously captive market now has more options in general.
How the mighty have fallen.