Corporate world is indeed likely going to be faster than people for discarding Intel only ideology.I work for a global manufacturing company with sites in every part of the world. My job role is client hardware, which includes procurement, distribution, upgrades, configs, rollouts etc etc.
We buy client hardware only from Dell, our server infrastructure again is all Dell, our network infrastructure is now all Cisco.
I spend a lot of time on the Dell Portal, and as yet I've not seen a Ryzen based laptop, desktop or HEDT Workstation. Our cycle on client hardware is 3 years, but the minute I see Dell add Ryzen to Latitudes and XPS systems I will swap our client machines across, I have had this discussion with other IT teams around the world and many are in agreement. The FC's want us to spend as little as possible so they will add pressure to make the swap if there is a decent cost saving towards opex.
Lowering expenses in something while getting overall same thing/better "bang for buck", is always advantage for any kind company.
It's just that Ryzen has existed barely year and half.
Which is short time when hardware replacing cycle is from that 3 years up to likely 5 years.
Also big OEMs haven't been exactly fast in offering AMD based alternatives.
Though Intel's production capacity shortage is likely going to give major help for AMD.
Intel must be regretting failure to equip that one "wrapped in shrinkwrap to wait 10nm" factory for 14nm node.
Yeah, Intel had supply problems already year ago with Coffee Lake.And what if it's because the retailers know their allocation is 50 cpus total.
You can't buy it if it's not available so if you have prior knowledge that supply is going to be complete garbage the correct decision is to milk the few whales who will buy no matter what.
Now when Intel has problems in shipping high profit margin server products and normal CPUs for big market PC OEMs, consumer/retail market isn't going to "draw long stick".
And that won't change until Intel gets clear increase to production capacity, or demand drops.
Server product clients are wrong place to tell "our priority is elsewhere".
And market PC OEMs are certainly wanting to get ready for the Christmas/end of the year sales and neglecting them isn't good idea either.