O come, all ye gamers! With Nvidia and Intel out of the picture, AMD has free rein this holiday season

It's the month before Christmas and gamers the globe over sleep, yet Santa's little helpers over in Santa Clara still creep. You see there's a chance for the scrappy team all donned in red this year, something many thought would never come near. While Intel and Nvidia usually push their way to the top, AMD might finally be able to put their seasonal reign to a stop. In other words, Intel and Nvidia are both reportedly halting or significantly lowering product shipments for the next quarter - two sides of the same supply issue coin - leaving AMD solely pushing affordable desktop product throughout this most wonderful time of the year. But I'm pretty sure the poem got all that information across. The CPU market has been rejuvenated in recent years thanks to AMD’s efforts, with Intel recently matching AMD core-to-core in an ongoing battle for supremacy and gamers’ love. But just when that eight-core showdown was kicking-off between Ryzen and 9th Gen Coffee Lake Core chips, reports emerged suggesting Intel can no longer sustain its entire range of CPUs going into Q4. AMD must be counting its lucky stars.