Starting to see a lot of worried people as Intel descends downwards rapidly. Reminds me of Nokia how this is going...
this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2025
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Me, standing on the shore with a life raft next to me, watching Intel drown: ehhhh.. do we really, though...? They tried to cancel a contract with amd and sue them in an attempt to kill the company in its infancy; they bribed major OEMs when amd was first to market with a 1GHz chip, first to market with x64, trying again to kill the company, this time through starvation; then they sat on their ass for 15 years with essentially no progress, just collecting cash for the most minimal of improvements... I'm sure I'm forgetting a ton of other shit the company has done, playing dirty at every opportunity. It's been about a decade since I took a deep-dive into this.
I don't have a (monitary) horse in this race, but as this has progressed, with the side addition of their chips literally disintegrating, it's been very... enjoyable, validating, to have stuck with amd since finding out about all the bullshit intel has, would do, and continues to do, to try and control the market and remain in control, no matter the cost. Karma may, finally, have caught up with them.
We need every competitor in the cpu market. If AMD wins and destroys intel they will act the same way. We need another competitor in the GPU market as well.
Competition is fine, but just like the school bully, if I see him getting his ass handed to him, I'm stopping to watch, not to help. But I'm sure as hell going to enjoy the show.
Publicly traded companies aren't children though, where being nice or bad is a force of habit to them, and they are able to learn and improve from their mistakes.
AMD has been an underdog under Intel and Nvidia for most of their existence. If they become the market leader, they will behave like them and start being anti-competitive.
Intel can stand to still lose a few pegs.
But after a bunch of beatings even a bully can become the underdog.
I think the healthy approach is to let it play out, and stop "meddling" as usual with the "free" market. Everybody's observing free market karma at play. Let it happen, as much as it will. All those intel mbas deserve it completely.
So far AMD has a good history of not being evil.