Good article. I remember being very skeptical of Athlon because the K6 I owned before was subjectively muss less stable than any Intel I had used until then. So felt it was only a question of time until IA64 would establish itself. Since, after all, Intel had the power to buy itself into a leader position. That feeling that AMD isn't quite as stable never really left until a few years ago, where with Spectre, I then thought that Intel was now playing catch-up with mobile-phone-like tactics rather that being design-superior.

Now again, Intel had a great opportunity with Xe but it feels like they just can't get their horsepower transferred onto the road. Not bad by any means, but something's just lacking.

Meanwhile, Qualcomm is announcing it's snapdragon X2 .. if only they could bring themselves to ensuring proper Linux support ..