The CPU market has seen a resurgence since the last year. We got to see AMD’s Ryzen and Intel’s Coffee Lake families which brought attention back to the CPU space after being overly shadowed by the GPU market. Yes, I get it, GPUs are awesome but it isn’t like CPU aren’t as much important as the products that feature GPUs, it’s just that CPUs have been way too boring since we first got Sandy Bridge. Even pre-Bulldozer era was great for the CPU industry where we got to see frequent clashes between the two rivals (Intel and AMD) generation after generation.

This action quickly faded after Bulldozer disappointment and Intel caught a grip of the CPU market for several generations. However, Intel’s dominance in this industry and AMD’s failures meant that the industry would eventually slow down, making Intel clumsy, knowing that had control over the desktop market and we then go to see several generations of refreshed upon refreshes. Even new architectures like Haswell or Skylake didn’t look like much of a leap as was seen with Sandy Bridge or first generation Core processors.