Name: Brady Rick
Today’s Date: 3/3/17
Name of Article: AMD’s
Ryzen CPUs are Here to take on Intel
Source and Link to the Article: Kotaku
For years Intel has been seen as the main
processing unit for many computers, many people may have never even heard about
AMD. AMD is another processor company like Intel but over the past 12 years’
market share between Intel and AMD has gone from 51%-48% to almost 83% of the
market share going towards Intel. If you’re into computers though you would
know that unlike Intel AMD is mostly used for budget PCs or for their graphics
cards. But you probably haven’t even heard about Ryzen unless you’re a PC gamer
or enthusiast.
AMD is
hoping to catch more of the consumer and business market than what they had
before. The problem with this is they don’t have the money that Intel does for
advertising. With a low advertising budget, they hope to make some money out of
the gaming population. The average pc gamer upgrades parts their parts to their
PC to some degree every two years. This means AMD has a big opportunity to sell
products. Unfortunately, most PC gamers care about raw power and performance
out of their computers, Ryzen CPU’s range from $200-$500 (cheaper than other 8
core CPU's), lower power requirement, and offer high boost clocking. Even with
these impressive stats Intel still houses some more powerful CPU’s than these
new CPU’s. Another problem is that they assume that people will want to buy a
new processor,
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