In August 2014, Intel released the first Haswell-E processor, the Core i7-5960X. Unlike its predecessors, the Core i7-5960X jumped to eight cores and 16 threads — but the lower clock speeds that this required paradoxically made the chip a less-than-great alternative for gamers. In many titles, the 4.4GHz clock speed on the Core i7-4790K was a better gaming option than the eight cores but lower top-end clock speed (3GHz base, 3.5GHz Turbo) that the 5960X offered.
Last Friday, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger told CNBC he thinks the chip shortage will last into 2024.
The Radeon RX 6500M outperforms the Intel Arc A370M in AMD benchmarks. This week, Intel unveiled its Arc laptop GPUs, which featured the A370M from the Arc 3
AMD has a larger market cap than Intel for the first time in history. Since its initial Zen architecture in 2017, AMD's fortunes have improved dramatically.
