[Intel & AMD Duopoly Mini-Arc]

We’ve yelled at Intel, now we’ll yell at AMD to be fair. AMD has been innovating left and right in the PC space: their Ryzen CPUs have been displacing Intel’s hold of the market, and their (RDNA2-based) GPUs have been giving NVIDIA a kick in the pants for their pricing. …So wait, why are we complaining about them?

Sources:

• Ars Technica, 10 August 2021, “AMD RX 6600XT review: A sad trombone noise of a “$379” 2021 GPU“
• PCMag, 10 June 2021, “Inside the GPU Shortage: Why You Still Can’t Buy a Graphics Card“
• ExtremeTEch, 12 May 2021, “AMD’s Market Share Surges on Steam and in Servers, Shrinks Overall“
• PC Gamer, 27 January 2021, “AMD says CPU and GPU supply will be tight until second half of 2021“
• TechRadar, 5 January 2021, “AMD overtakes Intel in desktop CPU market share for the first time in 15 years“
• PCMag, 18 November 2020, “AMD’s Radeon RX 6800 Cards Sell Out Instantly, Sparking Cries of ‘Paper Launch’“
• PC Gamer, 9 October 2020, “Ryzen 5000 pricing shows that AMD isn’t the cheap alternative anymore“

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