For years, Intel had been sitting on its CPU throne, gradually losing its drive to innovate process technology. Instead, the company chose to take the “abnormally bad” Skylake platform and tweak it for several generations, right up until this year’s Rocket Lake lineup. This has prompted Apple to transition its Mac products from x86 CPUs to its Arm-based custom silicon and left a lot of room for underdog AMD to make a comeback.
At this point, everyone that’s been running a Ryzen-powered PC and following the news on progress made on the Zen microarchitecture knows that AMD has so far executed on its promise to deliver significant performance improvements with each new generation of Ryzen CPUs.
