Intel will never admit to a inferior product they don’t have to they have other dell hp etc who do the talking for them intel are still the market leader in so many avenues. And can out sell intel in custom market but and can not get a foothold in the prebuilt machines from dell and others. Intel might have a inferior product but intel are by far the market leader.
Even if and Ryzen 9 4900x is faster in single core have 5ghz clock speed and better multi core cpu (I mean a allround better cpu and beats intel in every area) intel will still massively outsell it by quite a large margin.
Now I don’t know if this is due to intel marketing. Bad business practises. Or and just not got the customer confidence or that amd lack of marketing or bad marketing or just intel are to big and they can just ride being below and for a few years etc.
Lots of things can change but intel is a company that can just invest billions next week and pull them self back in a big way or they can just stick to there road map and internal plan and ride the amd wave.
Look I wish amd intel Nvidia etc was all equal but u go to a major prebuild site like dell hp and others and just look it’s intel every ware and mid range ones with gcards it normally Nvidia (but saying that amd 5700/X-ray does seem a popular option now on them.
Amd need to make inroads into that market since it is so much bigger then the custom market we enthusiasts love
I guess there are different ways to measure the quality of a product, the original air cooled VW Beetle sold more cars than any other in history, while i like them in a quirky kind of way i think i would rather have almost anything else, at least as my main car.
Dell owe their current position in the market to Intel, during the late 1990's to early 2000's Intel paid Dell (Including others on a smaller level) roughly $800m a year specifically not to use AMD CPU's in their product range, this to stop AMD gaining sales / market share for their R&D investment, AMD took Intel and Dell to court for it, both were found guilty and fined but the damage was done. AMD went from rapidly gaining market share in the 1990's to losing it over the next two decades, its taken them to look for revenue outside of the X86 market for revenue to R&D their was back into the X86 market now and take on Intel again.
So don't read to much into people like Dell not stocking AMD products.
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