All of these new CPUs are backwards compatible with AMD socket AM4 motherboards.
That is incorrect. These new CPUs are not backwards compatible with AM4 motherboards. They are backwards compatible with *certain very new chipsets* on AM4 motherboards, at least right now. They will be backwards compatible with more chipsets on AM4 motherboards come January assuming that the motherboard vendors push updated BIOSes for older products (Asus confirmed they intend to push the updates, not sure about anyone else. I hope Gigabyte does). And they will never be backwards compatible with other AM4
Speaking as a Mac user, I think it's really a shame that Apple's going down the ARM rabbit hole. CPUs like these AMD ones would have kept me using Apple hardware longer; I have a big investment in x86/OSX software (and yeah, emulation, but I was there when they tossed my PPC software investment in the garbage by abandoning the PPC emulation, I know better than to trust them about an architecture change this time around. Intentionally burn me once... I no longer allow you to hold the matches.)
They had things their own way for so long they just atrophied as a company. Totally forgot how to innovate.
Intel is getting fisted into oblivion ad they only ahve themselves to blame. Fuck em.
Seems unlikely that Intel is going anywhere - you are aware, I hope, that Intel does more than just IC fab. Has anyone seen anything that remotely suggests that they cannot recover from this? I have not. Best of luck to them, though, reaping the rewards of taking a half-decade off from their CPU game.
They didn't "take a half-decade off" they lied and cheated and designed crap. Their engineers are more practiced in bullshit than efficiency. Failing for a number of years at your bread-and-butter is just failure, it isn't some exotic fantasy vacation.
They're not going to get back on top on a hope and prayer. They're in the fight for their lives... to survive at all, after how many bridges they've burned by now. They're not in a serious fight to stay at the top. The market has already decided where the futu
All of these new CPUs are backwards compatible with AMD socket AM4 motherboards.
That is incorrect. These new CPUs are not backwards compatible with AM4 motherboards. They are backwards compatible with *certain very new chipsets* on AM4 motherboards, at least right now. They will be backwards compatible with more chipsets on AM4 motherboards come January assuming that the motherboard vendors push updated BIOSes for older products (Asus confirmed they intend to push the updates, not sure about anyone else. I hope Gigabyte does). And they will never be backwards compatible with other AM4
Speaking as a Mac user, I think it's really a shame that Apple's going down the ARM rabbit hole. CPUs like these AMD ones would have kept me using Apple hardware longer; I have a big investment in x86/OSX software (and yeah, emulation, but I was there when they tossed my PPC software investment in the garbage by abandoning the PPC emulation, I know better than to trust them about an architecture change this time around. Intentionally burn me once... I no longer allow you to hold the matches.)
They had things their own way for so long they just atrophied as a company. Totally forgot how to innovate.
Intel is getting fisted into oblivion ad they only ahve themselves to blame. Fuck em.
Seems unlikely that Intel is going anywhere - you are aware, I hope, that Intel does more than just IC fab. Has anyone seen anything that remotely suggests that they cannot recover from this? I have not. Best of luck to them, though, reaping the rewards of taking a half-decade off from their CPU game.
They didn't "take a half-decade off" they lied and cheated and designed crap. Their engineers are more practiced in bullshit than efficiency. Failing for a number of years at your bread-and-butter is just failure, it isn't some exotic fantasy vacation.
They're not going to get back on top on a hope and prayer. They're in the fight for their lives... to survive at all, after how many bridges they've burned by now. They're not in a serious fight to stay at the top. The market has already decided where the futu
They are real world prices. In Canada (CAD). It's said right in my post.