• @Buffalox
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    21 month ago

    Intel got caught off guard by the rise of advanced packaging,

    For servers and workstation yes, but the first 2 Ryzen generations were still 1 chip packages for desktop. And Intel lost marketshare quicker to AMD on desktop than on servers.
    So while packaging was an important factor in higher end, Intel actually lost marketshare a lot slower on servers, where the packaging was the biggest benefit for AMD.
    On desktop I think Intel lost because they’d stayed on 4 cores for too long. I remember personally complaining that my freaking phone had more cores than my desktop.
    So I jumped to AMD as soon as I could afford the upgrade. 😀

    On workstations AMD absolutely trounced Intel with Threadripper. Threadripper was amazing, a giant improvement of workstations, it’s sad that they don’t prioritize that segment anymore.