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Re:Intel slashes prices in face of AMD competition by delfinom on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @09:58AM (#21136471)
>CPU architecture between Intel and AMD can't vary much since they both target x86

Yes they can. Instruction sets are just that, a bunch of op codes and "things" for a processor to do. How a processor actually performs them is open to implementation.

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Re:Intel slashes prices in face of AMD competition by cogman10 on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @12:22PM (#21138184)
Right, it is like declaring that "Java bytecode is fixed, all JVMs are the same!"

Implementation matters a lot. Heck, it is WHY there are performance differences between AMD and Intel CPUs.

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