Has the AMD/Intel price ratio been like it is now?

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ashinms

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I've been into computers for awhile, but only been building for about a year and a half. Has the AMD/Intel price ratio always been like it is now, or back when (those few times) AMD was on top, did their pricing more or less resemble Intel's? I'm a pretty big AMD fan, so I would hate for my perception of them to be ruined by finding out they were money hogs back then.

PS.... How did Cyrix/VIA affect AMD and Intel pricing, too?
 
I've never owned an AMD processor, just becuase i'm true to Intel, but as far as i can remember, the pricing ratio back then was around 2:3. Intel being the most expensive. Back around 2001-2005, both AMD and Intel has similar advances in microprocessor technology. So the difference per processor wasn't that great (about $30-$40). Intel still outperformed AMD. Today, the prices are more than triple when it comes to the expensive i7's (most noteably the $1000 extreme editions), whereas the most expensive AMD processors on the market are $230. Again, Intel's new super fast quickpath technology is the main reason for this increase in price, in addition to its smaller 32nm technology.
So, AMD's pricing was pretty close to Intel's back in the early 2000's. Always cheaper than Intels, i don't think they were the money hungry type. But i mean, aren't all companies like that? :P
 
Yep. And what kills me the most is that companies release their new technologies to the market, 2 or 3 years after developing the product. ie, Intel's ThunderBolt: designed 2009-released 2011, 32nm manufacturing tech: designed 2008-9. released 2010...
All because of projected budgets and sought out revenues, as well as governmental agencies intended to stabilize market competition...

If we wanted to, each and every consumer can have DDR4 memory, 16nm microprocessors, ThunderBolt ports, and anything else that has already been developed - tomorrow.
 
This seems strange.... If this were Youtube, just the fact alone that i'm AMD and you're Intel would have us threating each other and claiming that we know where each other live and will kill the other in their sleep. This conversation seems almost... too... civil....
 
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