[the_tyrant]

Intel is so much more powerful than AMD because of their fabs.

AMD no longer has fabs (aka, the factories where the chips are made).


The die shrinking is done by those factories, Intel runs their own, thus they can manage the production and the design together, whereas AMD contracts out the production to others. Because intel runs the best fabs in the business, their CPUs are always done better than AMD.

I personally think that AMD should sell off their x86 patents, to maybe IBM or Qualcomm, and just stay in graphics alone.