Ten best selling CPUs on Amazon are all AMD chips

This is the market for people building their own PC or upgrading a PC and buying their parts from Amazon which is a tiny portion of the total PC shipments but is an important leading indicator for the rest of the market. Intel still beats AMD in total CPUs shipped.

And this is the amazing fact that needs more study. AMD's been the easy choice for years. Why so slow to adopt?

* Consumer/Partner Inertia?

* Ability to produce to meet demand?

* Support?

* Compatibility?

Once had an IT person tell me they couldn't move to ryzen laptops because the way the system presented its network interfaces was incompatible with their management software. My charitable interpretation is that there's enough programs like this that prevent AMD adoption, while simultaneously AMD never seems to be in a rush to fix firmware or software problems.

Inertia, layman brand perception, anticompetitive behavior (Intel has been in court for 15+ years about this).

An example in the laptop space, Intel invested a lot in the marketing and designs of the Ultrabook classification. So customers ask for an Ultrabook from Dell, Lenovo, HP, etc. and those are only available with Intel CPUs. It’s taken several years for AMD mobile CPUs to work their way into high end designs.