QuorTek
Time to buy Intel Shares when they drop down for long term investment, also it is about time, not that I am a fanboy of whatever brand, I just like to see good priced stuff out there without having to sell a kidney all the time….
Intel's stock is described as “transcends speculation”. They've been fairly stable given this hammering. Bear in mind their market position and that they have many companies over a barrel. Their business position is very secure for the foreseeable and that's what investors go on. They will have no idea as to the real meaning of all the stuff we're discussing because they're investors, not nerds.
I'd also consider that the performance of these kinds of chips is way beyond the requirements of most people and it is therefore priced outside of the wallets of most people. This being said, the previous generation threadripper is probably going to be a steal soon. These chips are aimed at people who have calculated the savings they'll make from the increase in compute speed and offset that against the cost. I'd love a Threadripper, but it would be a willy waving contest and nothing more. There are some awesomely priced AMD parts out there for us mere proles at the moment of which I shall be availing myself shortly.
Threadripper is not a chip for the masses and when you look at the released benchmarks you'll find that it doesn't play nice with some games (COD Black Ops and FC5) and is therefore not suited for general use.
We are also in a situation where we actually have real market progress for once rather than Intel holding back. They're getting punished good and proper for their behaviour and I'm quite happy to see it. AMD is finally in a position where they can charge a premium for market-disrupting tech. I'm glad to see it as, instead of “tick, tick, tock” minute development, we have a relentless march forward with real performance gains every single time. They deserve to reap the rewards, especially if they're able to really throw money back into the company after paying their long-suffering investors. Remember when they sold their fab and we all went “this is the end of AMD!”? Well, looking at the makeup of their new chips, that looks like a shrewd move. They just choose whoever has the best process for what they need to do at the time so they're always at the front.
The ONLY part where Inhell is winning on price V performance is in the PCI-e lanes but even there, there are questions about performance when using the Intel chips.
From what I can see, AMD has the market properly tied up probably until 2021 as Intel just don't seem to have anything competitive ready to go until at least 2022.