AMD in everything

Things are always changing …

Years I built a workstation around one of the first dual-core AMD processors (Athlon X2) as this was the 1st practical multi-core desktop CPU on a single die. (Intel Petium D was separate cores in a single package, which was less efficient)

Intel soon caught up and since then I’ve been using Intel workstations.

Then in 2020 I built a 12-core AMD Ryzen workstation – still super happy with it.

Framework laptops also look interesting.

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I think it’s super exciting to have AMD back competing in all the markets they play in, both with NVIDIA and Intel. I would love to see another one or two CPU vendors join the market, too. Maybe Qualcomm will finally get to market with usable and buyable desktop/laptop/server CPUs?

we already have third in apple :slight_smile: I would love someone with RISCV architecture as third option.

Yes… But Apple is not quite in the same way as Intel and AMD. Intel and AMD offer a wide variety of CPUs which can be bought in a box or already integrated into a system from an OEM. Apple doesn’t sell their CPU products that way (which has worked out great for them financially!).

And I am not particular about CPU architecture for anything. If it’s buyable by mere mortals, priced well, not horrible to use, and competitive on performance (and power consumption, for some use-cases) is all that matters to me. More x86_64 vendors would be fine with me. Or RISCV, or Power, or ARM, or whoever.

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