{"id":362,"date":"2018-12-07T20:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T19:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vmware.nicolas-frey.de\/blog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2019-01-05T09:23:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T08:23:27","slug":"amd-vs-intel-the-fight-for-supremacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vmware.nicolas-frey.de\/blog\/technology\/amd-vs-intel-the-fight-for-supremacy\/","title":{"rendered":"AMD vs. Intel – The fight for supremacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n







Is there something missing?<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

What empowers your device?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

What all of this devices have at least in common is pretty established. It’s the CPU – central processing unit. Due the fact that everything digital is encoded in zeros and ones or on and off, its all based on calculations done by the CPU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Further to make a\nsimple separation, the CPU market is divided in two branches. RISC and CISC. reduced <\/strong>and complex\n<\/strong>instruction set CPUs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CISC is more like\nthe jack off all trades and makes your Windows\/Linux Laptop\/Desktop\/Server\nfunctional. Just as an example for RISC – your mobile phone CPU like Samsung S9\n– Samsung Exynos 9810.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lets focus on CISC\nprocessors. Over the last decades there has been an oligopoly of some CPU\nvendors. Intel, AMD, Cyrix, VIA. Just AMD and Intel are left the rest is quite\ndead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AMD close to file for bancrupcy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Until 2006 then it was was a pretty even duopoly between AMD and Intel with about 50 % market share each. Then the downfall of AMD began with the release of Intels Core 2 Duo architecture. Intel offered the first quad core consumer CPUs at low power and cheap price – game changer. Some of you remember the heating stations called Pentium 4, Core 2 Duo was different. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile AMD acquired ATI (RADEON GPU) for a lot of money which wasn’t worth it at that time. So in the following graph you will find the decline of AMD and the rise of Intel over the last years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source: https:\/\/www.cpubenchmark.net\/market_share.html <\/a> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Faul play! – Intels rotten strategy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Sadly Intel abused\nits market power to further tackle AMD with some really dirty tricks. Intel\nlost fans especially in the gaming community and some will never forgive and\nsee it as correct conduct not to buy Intel any more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • On 13 May 2009, the European\n Commission (\u201cCommission\u201d) decided to fine Intel EUR 1.06 billion for abuse\n of its dominant position. According to the Commission the abuse consisted\n of (i) exclusivity rebates, and (ii) naked restrictions<\/strong><\/li>
  • Intel pays for benchmarks,\n DECEIVES to make AMD look bad<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    WTF? – nobody expected that – it’s a comeback!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    But then something\nchanged at AMD staff and products to start the comeback:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    • Appointment of Lisa Su as CEO\n in 2014<\/li>
    • Invention of the ZEN\n architecture and finally release of the first RYZEN processors in 2017<\/li>
    • Competitive again in\n consumer\/enterprise CPU\/GPU branch<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      Now… some days ago\nthe third generation of RYZEN CPU details leaked, they are not yet confirmed.\nIf this is true AMD somehow managed to develop a portfolio that is outstanding\nin price\/performance manufactured at 7 nanometres. While Intel is stuck at 14++\nnanometres manufacturing process. Thus they have technical challenge to mass\nproduce 10nm chips because of bad yield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Meanwhile AMD is\nmass producing 7nm in CPU and GPU now, not all yet released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      This means a\nparadigm shift coming in the next months for the CPU\/embedded graphics sector\nin both the consumer and enterprise market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      For all of you who are interested what could happen I recommend you watch this video:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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