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Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 04 May 2025
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If not for consoles, AMD would have likely gone bankrupt or become a marginal player.
Considering what's happening with Intel in the past ~7 year, it would have been game over for x86 PC gaming on the CPU front.