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Intel to Cut Prices of its Desktop Processors by 15% in Response to Ryzen 3000

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Don't reward Intel for screwing us over for years and being insecure with all their performance sapping CPU bugs. Reward AMD for finally bringing us a good product at a good price and forcing Intel to drop prices.

But why did AMD keep the same 8-thread Bulldozer from 2011 till 2017?!
 
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Here's 10-15% that we've added to the CPU's over the years in the first place and some added excitement of stealing all your data.

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I guess it's to make the 9900Ks look better when it releases at $your liver.
 
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Because that was the best that they could do with the money they had? AMD might have had more resources if Intel hadn't illegally bribed as many companies as they could not to do business with AMD.

AMD would have been good and well if they hadn't bought ATi and overpaid for it.
 
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AMD would have been good and well if they hadn't bought ATi and overpaid for it.

Really, seems to work out pretty well in Console space, thin-no margin maybe, but it was better than just letting Nvidia dominate entirely.

Mind you i do wonder what would have happened had ATI folded...
 
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AMD would have been good and well if they hadn't bought ATi and overpaid for it.

I don't think buying ATI was the problem, it was not capitalising on that investment for a long time. GPUs kept the company afloat when the CPUs were in limbo. All that crypto-mining probably paid for the various Zens.

It's also given AMD a unique portfolio of IP that consists of both CPU and GPU IP, that they've used to leverage against each other quite nicely.

The biggest problem AMD had around the time of buying ATI and afterwards is probably divesting from GloFlo, but being tied to them for years, and having people at the top who didn't seem to have Lisa Su's long term vision and technical background when it came to where the company was going to go.

AMD without ATI would just be stuck in the doldrums, getting crumbs from Intel's table, with likely not much to offer but second league CPUs.
 

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something to note, this isnt intel saying they are doing it but sources via another website so who knows if or by how much things could drop. as many have said elsewhere il believe when it happens and there are cpus in stock at said prices.
 
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But it made the ATi's products much worse... cough-Vega-cough, cough-Polaris-cough, etc, etc. Rebrands, even some years like 2014 when there were no GPU releases, at all :eek:

It's made AMD dominant in the console marketplace. I dont know how much money that's resulted in but I bet its significant.
 
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But it made the ATi's products much worse... cough-Vega-cough, cough-Polaris-cough, etc, etc. Rebrands, even some years like 2014 when there were no GPU releases, at all :eek:

You do realise that ATI sold itself as otherwise it was preparing to go under? We're lucky it didn't go to Nvidia and we'd have had one monopoly in CPUs with Intel, and another one in GPUs with Nvidia.
 
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But it made the ATi's products much worse... cough-Vega-cough, cough-Polaris-cough, etc, etc. Rebrands, even some years like 2014 when there were no GPU releases, at all :eek:

The first AMD GPU after they bought ATI was the HD 4870, that or its successors the HD 5870, HD 6970, HD 7970, R9 290X, Fury-X, Polaris/Vega/Navi are bad GPU's, not one of them.

ATI was in the dumps before AMD bought them.
 
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