It will be great to have a new GPU player on the block, especially if they can help produce and meet market demands. It also might be amazing for linux. Or awful in every way.,(reply>), @Syd Bat I had an RX570 last year and ways extremely surprised how well the drivers were done. Never had any issues and the interface is really, really well done. Nvidia is horrendous in comparison. <br>Also, the new drivers improved the performance of a lot of their GPUs, so the RX570 became better than GTX1060 in pretty much every game.,(reply>), @I lick the insides of microwave popcorn packages  - this is good to hear. I may now look into an AMD card, as long as it is both good for gaming and less expensive than Nvidia.,(reply>), @Syd Bat AMD got their shit together with their drivers last year and are now definitely ahead of Nvidia in that regard.,(reply>), @ThisIsMyRealNameSrs It no longer does. Intel allows others to design and make X86 CPUs through Intel and they can be manufactured by TSMC (as Intel now has a long term partnership with them). It's a similar proposition as ARM, except the other way around (ARM only provides licensing, doesn't actually make anything). Additional, the original patents for X86 and X86-64 have already expired. So technically, anyone could make an X86 chip, but they'd have to introduce their own tech into it.,(reply>), @gajbooks Absolute nonsense. Intel's drivers work perfectly fine.