The part of this that fascinates me, is everyone assuming that "Intel is dead". What I've seen over the last decade, is better described as a game of "leapfrog". Going back to the Prescott Pentium P-4, was another era of bragging and bluster from the AMD camp. "Intel will never surpass these Athlons", was spoken with great conviction. Net burst architecture is garbage, blah, blah, blah.
Then, Intel dropped the "Core2Duo series, and the AMD ship rats went scurrying down the "SS AMD's" mooring cables. Which netted glorious peace and quiet to Intel fans, for nigh on 8 years.
In that time period, AMD floundered, and was even forced to move out of Silicon Valley, as from the pictures of their campus, it appeared they couldn't no longer afford groundskeepers. :sad:
And here we are in 2017, with the mob chanting "Rizen", with the same level of zeal, as the crowd in Jerusalem shouted, "give us Barabbas"!
Guess what, the game's not over yet. While perhaps it might turn out that Intel is so bloated, arrogant, and complacent, that Rizen may ring as its death knell, and this could easily come to pass. But on the other hand....
While it appears that Intel's clock has stopped "tick-tocking", that's because they haven't marketed anything with a 10nm process. To know the real reason that's so, I would probably have to be guilty of industrial espionage. But I strongly suspect, it's a lot more difficult hurdle, than anyone in the industry has suspected it would be.
With that said, product releases are very similar to a game of poker, and AMD has shown its hand. That gives Intel the opportunity to see how Ryzen does, but more importantly, it gives them the opportunity to work Rizen's most popular features, into one truly bad-a** line of 10nm processors.
As the article states, not matter what the base clock, Rizen, similar series numbered CPUs, all overclock to about the same frequency. And while it seems the AMD camp is going to forgive them for that limitation, Intel fanciers seem much less flexible and/or forgiving.
Accordingly, witness the furor created by Intel telling users, "don't overclock i7-7700K if you're having heat issues!
https://www.techspot.com/community/...-tells-owners-they-shouldnt-overclock.235062/
OK, who didn't see something like this coming, raise your hands? The truth of the matter is (IMO), that all the speed that can be milked out of 14nm CPUs has been done already. These CPUs have been "binned to death", and that has closed the gap between rated speed and overclock speed.
So, get your "Jiffy-Pop" ready and get comfy, 'cause I'm hoping we're all going to see one hell of a show in the next couple of years!