AMD in 2018 – moar corez, faster CPUs, and depressed graphics cards

There’s no denying AMD has had a stellar year in 2018. Sure, the stock market can be a little fickle, and GPU development still hasn’t quite caught up with the competition, but the red team has maintained positive momentum in CPUs, made smart choices for Radeon, and, for the first time in a decade, may even have Intel rattled. Thanks to its flexible manufacturing and its one scalable architecture to rule them all approach, AMD has been able to stay on the attack in 2018. While usually in catch-up mode trying to chase down Intel’s dominance, for the first time in a long time, AMD looks to be pulling ahead of Chipzilla. But, as ever, AMD needs to stay on the offensive to really change the status quo for good. From a half-step generation of CPUs, which reignited a long-stagnant pricing war, to server chips convincing enough to get giant clients to ditch Xeon for once, the red team has been busy in 2018. On the GPU side, maybe less so, but it almost side-stepped the collapse of the crypto-mining market, and still came out swinging with a new mainstream graphics card.