Did Intel only Release the 11th generation to Interfere with AMD’s growing Marketshare

[the wopster]

TO BE CLEAR THIS THREAD IS NOT A THREAD TO ARGUE WHO IS THE BEST AND IS FOR INTELLIGENT DISCUSSION ONLY!!!!

Considering Intel have been market leaders for well over a decade and have almost become unaccustomed to almost any form of challenge/competition, was the release of the 11th Gen CPU family more of a ploy to try and disrupt AMDs growing marketshare in the mid range, high end and server areas, than to release something that’s an upgrade to 10th gen or a direct challenge Ryzen/Threadripper/Epic?


For clarification I have no affiliation to Intel or AMD I have build and owned numerous systems powered by both Processors.

 

[the wopster]

The decision to backport it obviously happened a good while ago now, fundamentally the reason to release it is continued progression, but I guess they couldn't see how little progress would be made until a great deal of the work was done and the R&D money already spent. Why not try and recoup some of that money, using it as a marketing exercise, and get PCI-E 4.0 out of the door to the masses before it is redundant. Obviously they - want - to compete with AMD, but at the same time they need to ensure that they appease their shareholders. I think we can see with the change of CEO, that the decisions made that allowed this to happen have now been dealt with, and moving forward I expect a refreshed and renewed Intel, bring on 2023!

All of that is totally understandable if they had nothing until mid/late 2022, but isn’t Alder Lake coming towards the end of this year, there is no doubt they didn’t expect AMD to be a threat and AMD did catch them with their pants down
That’s why I asked if it was more of a disruptive tactic to stop an AMD foothold into a higher marketshare until they got something out that is truly competitive on all levels, they still have no answer for the 5950x and have taken away the counter to the 39/5900x by taking away the 10 core chip(yes I know they die would have been to big).


Alder Lake looks very interesting, 8 big and 8 little cores is a very interesting concept

 

[the wopster]

Depends how powerful the big cores will be. I was watching the Tech Deals guy yesterday and he was saying that LGA1700 might support a few CPU generations.
But i would not trust that to mean buying a board will mean you can upgrade to a Meteor Lake chip a couple of years later.

Normally 2 generations per platform, I wouldn’t expect any change on that front TBH