Can I ask you a personal question? Were you truly a Black Numenorean before becoming the Mouth of Sauron?
On a less serious note, I think AMD should and needs to charge this much. Let's not forget that Intel STILL has 10x the financial resources that AMD does (which makes it all that more incredible AMD is able to topple them and is now making Nvidia sweat, another company with resources a magnitude larger). Intel WILL answer back eventually, and it's imperative that AMD makes hay while the sun is shinning so that they have the resources to keep their seriously aggressive R&D running at that same rate.
But let's really look at this price increase.... The 1800x debuted at $500, while the 5800x is $50 cheaper and at least 40% faster.... Can anyone else name another time in which a company's CPUs gained as much performance in as little time with a $50 price drop? I can't.
I think everyone was a bit spoiled by Zen2, but if you look at Zen2, that was priced accordingly, as AMD still did not have the single thread crown and realized that, so they had to price more aggressively to gain market share and increase sales volume, and it worked. This time around, AMD is the best at everything for the time being, and the price is going to reflect that, and yet, they're still reasonably priced considering they're undeniably the best.... I mean, $550 for the fastest $12 core! Can you actually buy another twelve core, even a slower one, for that price?
