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Originally Posted by Gser
It's not aiming for Samsung or Apple because it can't compete with their R&D ... AMD and chinese phone makers are known as product suppliers of the poor for a reason.
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I have to disagree with you on most of your points.
Huawei is a huge company even bigger than Intel and is number two right now at smartphones just after Samsung.
Its aim is to surpass even Samsung in 2019, so it's out of the Xiaomi's targets.
AMD and Xiaomi are not making products for the poor.
They are making good products at sane prices for sane people.
EPYC CPUs and Threadripper CPUs are not cheap, but compared to Xeons they are cheaper for their performance and in sane prices for their value.
AMD has better CPUs now at all categories than Intel.
They are always faster on multithreaded apps and always cheaper.
The only thing missing from AMD is giving money to tech journalists in order to write reviews in a form of propaganda.
Like what Intel always did in the past and does even now with Zen architecture.
They are literally buying time to catch up with Zen architecture and 7nm of TSMC but of course even Intel's brand name and huge money can't buy everything.
So, these days Intel has only money and brand name and AMD has the best x86 CPUs ever.
Regarding Xiaomi, it has some cheap but very good smartphones and also some expensive ones but like AMD in sane prices for their hardware.
Intel and Nvidia are very well known of overpricing their products in insane levels, just because there are people with various psychological problems who actually buy them.
And because they have done everything they can - illegally - to eliminate competition and to become covered monopolies in order to sell at such high prices.
Now that Intel has competition after more than ten years, it has lost a good share in desktop and HEDT markets and next year is going to lose around 25% in server market.
But AMD is a small company and can't compete at the same time with nVidia and Intel.
Maybe the big failure of Turing and 7nm of Vega20 could make a difference.
We 'll see about that.