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Market perception matters though, and I know many people -- IT admins included -- who think that Intel is just higher quality. Those people will be hard to capt
by 12298765 8y ago
Market perception matters though, and I know many people -- IT admins included -- who think that Intel is just higher quality. Those people will be hard to capture quickly, and AMD will need to hold a lead for a while to change that perception
- zokier 8y agoIt doesn't help that Ryzen had few relatively high-profile issues: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13924192 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13924192 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196683 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196683 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ryzen-Segv-Response https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ryzen-Se... https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/RyzenMachineLinuxHangs https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/RyzenMachineL... Not implying that Intel chips are flawless (still bitter about Haswell TSM), but as you said, market perception matters.