During the peak of the dot-com bubble in 2000, Intel‘s (NASDAQ: INTC) market cap briefly surpassed $500 billion. At the time, its smaller rival AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) was only worth about $12 billion.
But today Intel has a market cap of just $215 billion, and AMD is worth $130 billion. Let’s see why Intel’s value tumbled as AMD gradually caught up, and whether or not AMD could eclipse Intel by 2025.