Which CPU Will Reign Supreme?
We’ve been covering personal computing here at PCMag for many years (since 1982, to be exact). And in that time, we’ve witnessed and reported on a lot of technology competition—but very little has rivaled the battle of the chips, between Intel and AMD. It’s been a virtual seesaw of CPU superiority between the two makers, with behemoth Intel monopolizing at first, but underdog AMD coming from behind to make it a real fight. If competition drives innovation—and I think there’s little doubt that it does—these two companies should probably thank each other for at least some of the technical gains each has made in the past couple of decades. And the battle is far from over (if it ever actually does end). Our cover-story writer, PCMag Hardware Analyst Tom Brant, has taken…