Exactly, especially since high margins on those is a defining characteristic of intel. They can match on price if they kill their margin. Matching on performance or power usage ? That’s where their problem is.

Meanwhile amd is making sure to be low priced yet ahead for as long as possible / as many processor gen as possible to create themselves a stable market share, not just the people who buy whatever is best each day, but those that like stability and uniformity and wouldn’t go with zen but now that zen+ and zen2 confirmed it they just might be tempted