kevinc313
I find it very difficult to take AMD seriously because they got rid of their IC fab ten years ago.
I'm guessing that people getting all riled up about "muh 7nm process" don't really understand that AMD stopped fabbing their own chips.
But again there are obvious cons to doing your own fabs as indicated by intels current prices over AMD, not to mention intel has been locked to the same base with only minor tweaks.
Intel has not innovated and will continue to not innovate as long as they dont take AMD seriously.
This is not a battle of core and thread counts, or high FPS, or frequencies or 7nm.
Its a matter of offering the best product for the money and to be honest I think this is where AMD currently shines.
Intel can have the best product on the market with the 9900K but the competition comes so close.
This is what can hurt Intel, they can still remain ahead of AMD but the cost factor needs to be competitive.
Neither company can rest on their laurels, sure AMD is still playing catch up but we know already the next processors will be faster.
Granted we are still talking about incremental changes but Moores law is faltering thanks to how small things are now.
Both companies will need to adapt and i already like AMD's "Chiplet" idea, its not perfect but it does mean AND processors can be more modular now.
processor modularity is what i think the future of computers are based on our current rate of technology.
3D nodes are also plausible but I think combining the two would be for the best.
Performance gains will soon be a thing of the past though and the next fight would be efficiency methinks.