Seeing this article's title kind of shocked me. Just a few years ago we were discussing how they have an absolute monopoly over the semiconductor industry, and they did...
You have to imagine those thousands of computer engineers at Intel are doing *something*
but we certainly haven't seen it
I think AMD is in the same boat as intel. The best AMD could hope for would be to license an ARM chip to compete with apple silicon, but then they would be second fiddle again. AMD has had their sites set on Intel and not the industry and that's going to bite both of them.
Technically AMD's licenses x86 from intel, who then get's the 64-bit instrictions from AMD (SUN helped them build it back in the day.)
Open SPARC is also a thing, as is OPEN Power. While ARM has a lot of potential, it's a 40 year old architecture at it's core, as is x86.
Both Open Power and Open Sparc are mildly newer.
Apple didn't make an Open Sparc chip for their new processor, they made ARM. You may not be an apple fan, but they are setting the market right now. ARM 64 will be the new desktop architecture in a few years.
The mark everyone is aiming for is desktop productivity than can match an M1 for the same power budget, and that's only one CPU architecture right now.
I'm not really talking about a direct comparison, it's more a commentary on how we are stuck on 40+ year old tech instead of moving to more modern architectures.
Also I was commenting on the ridiculousness of the AMD/Intel relationship.
Intel's yearly revenue graph is telling me something else. Author is trying to be drama queen.
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/INTC/intel/revenue
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