How long until AMD leaves the enthusiast PC market?

[disolitude]

CGI-Quality said:

disolitude said:

I see one of two things happening in the next 12 months.

1. AMD announcing that they will focus on APU's and graphics by this time next year and will completely leave the enthusiast market to Intel (scary thought).

I'm guessing Intel having that market all to themselves would lead to disaster in your eyes?

Wouldnt say a disaster but stagnation. Prices will stay high and performance will stay the same. Why would intel pour money in to R&D for these high end chips when no one is challenging them? Instead they will spent their resources making x86 as efficient as possible to deal with ARM.

Who knows maybe in 5 years we will have a 5 inch x86 quadcore i7 smartphone...running full windows 9