I'd rather Intel. People have been pleading with AMD for years to compete with Nvidia, but AMD really has not put in a proper effort. They still don't look like they are putting in a proper effort.
AMD shipped Frontier. Compare and contrast with Intel's Aurora.
Epyc took the performance crown from Intel. Games consoles have been AMD for ages.
AMD are competing with Intel and Nvidia simultaneously with fewer resources than either, having come back from near bankruptcy in recent memory.
There's been plenty of effort and execution from team red.
It's commercially unfortunate that the crypto and now deep learning crowd don't particularly value the flexibility or control that comes from an open source toolchain. Regardless, I don't think the Cuda moat will hold out.
<They still don't look like they are putting in a proper effort.>
Quite the contrary, they've turned around the company to focus on AI.
Legacy software projects are on hold and software developers moved to
work on AI under a new VP (former Xilinx exec). They have purchased some startups to get experienced AI developers.
AMD was fighting Intel for its life. After a number of flops, it only got a big breakthrough on the CPU-side with Zen just over half a decade ago - which is not that far back. Hopefully they now have a bit of money saved up in their war chest to help the GPU division.
