Thursday, March 9, 2017

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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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