What has happened to Intel lately?

[DarkeoX]

(10-27-2013, 09:59 AM)delroth Wrote: AMD is far too busy swimming in the PS4 and XBone money to make good CPUs.

I disagree here. AMD is progressively shifting their CPU business to APU, as they saw that APU can be quite attractive for your typical casual gamer who wants to watch HD stuff and do more usual stuff with his computer. He/She wants something that doesn't cost too much but gives room for improvement and allow him/her to play BF 3 / Dota / LoL / CoD / WoW at medium settings possibly with some shiny effects without loosing too much FPS. An 140$ A10-6800k can do this for them just fine, and I think that even Intel understood the huge potential that those APU solutions, that look bastardised for people who build gaming rigs, can be towards casual gamers market. When you buy something like that, it's clearly not to play Crysis 3 (even at low) or Metro LL. So I think those systems can take over the regular CPU+ dedicated GPU provided that they continue to improve. Thus they could very well, just as they owned the low-midrange GPU market, snarf the low-mid-range CPU market.
Which is why they positionning themselves on the console market doesn't mean they abandon or give less consideration to CPU. Certainly there's money, but there's also the experience of building systems where CPU & GPU get more and more close to each other and where software can speak more directly and more easily with GPU for stuff that goes on on display. Even the Mantle API seems a push into that direction.
So from what I understood, I quite disagree with the general assertion that AMD going all console will severe them from CPU market.