Comment by boston_clone

I began supporting AMD as my choice for a gaming CPU when they began trouncing Intel in terms of performance vs. total draw power with an attractive price point around 2016 or so.

Then, a wave of speculative execution vulnerabilities were discovered / disclosed, resulting in an even larger differential for performance and power use after the SPECTRE patches were applied.

Considering this, I'm not sure that it's fair to cast the successes of AMD as mere failures from Intel. Dr. Su is simply a brilliant engineer and business leader.