"I am a little surprised after the whole meltdown fiasco that people are still buying Intel hardware at what appears to be the same rates as before, despite the fact that the meltdown bug still exists and at current is only fixed with a patch that slows down the hardware
We buy several thousand processors a year. It's not just a simple case of not buying them or "simply swapping to AMD", there is all the associated "crap" to go with them. We do buy AMD, just not in the same amounts.