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AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history

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181
Submitted by
rbanffy
Posted
Nov 4, 2026
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tomshardware.com

Story details from Hacker News ↗ · linked article on tomshardware.com.

Trending history

AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Nov 4, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 62 checks on 2 different days. Its best position was #3 of 30, reached on Nov 5, 01:22 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 5, 09:52 UTC.

Rank history

Position on Hacker News · Front page at every check (lower is better).

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From the discussion

A few top-level comments from Hacker News, shortened. Read the full thread on Hacker News.

That says more about Intel's shambolic efforts than it does about AMD's road to damascus moment. Honestly both of them have demonstrated that they have little interest in AI. Intel gave up on Optane right as (a much-improved successor) would've helped with MoE offsetting or even as a highly durable drive for KV…

I have avoided Intel products since the time some law enforcement forensic team used DCILeech to read the RAM of my server hosted at Hetzner and extracted a LUKS key from it. That was a lifelong lesson. There is no guarantee AMD won't come up with similar shenanigans like Intel's DCI soon and of course we don't know…

AMD specifically calls out high sales of Instinct products as leading the sales growth. I wonder how their Epyc and Ryzen lines compare to Intels Xeon and Core lines. AMD's Instinct sales are practically nothing compared to competing Nvidia products, but no one† buys Intel Arc accelerators, so that may be the main…

Questions

Is AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history trending on Hacker News right now?

Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Nov 5, 09:52 UTC, after 2 days of trending.

What is the highest rank AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history reached?

#3 on Hacker News · Front page, on Nov 5, 01:22 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.

How long has AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history been trending?

It was first seen on Nov 4, 2026 and has been on the list on 2 days (62 checks) since.

How much discussion did it get on Hacker News?

504 points and 181 comments; submitted by rbanffy on Nov 4, 2026.