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Intel until they realized that other companies made CPUs, too
They also bring a "dying transitor problem we don't feel like fixing" to the party, too
And a constantly changing socket so you have to get a new motherboard every time.
Honestly, not a big deal if you build PC's to last 6-7 years, since you will be targeting a new RAM generation every time.
If only your CPU becomes a limiting factor at one point you can simply upgrade your CPU to a few generations newer cpu without having to swap out your motherboard. You can't really do that with Intel (AFAIK they switch platforms every 2 CPU generations so depending on your CPU you may not be table to upgrade at all (can happen with AMD too, but not that frequent)
Upgraded from a 1600 to a 5600, same mobo
With no multi threading
I mean the i7s had SMT. You had to pay extra for SMT, whereas AMD started giving it to you on every SKU except a few low-end ones.
Is it true that all of them had SMT but they just locked it away for lower tiers processors and some managed to activate it despite Intel's effort?