Wow man not only does most of your stuff not have anything to do with what he posted. Which was that HDET wasn't niche (sorry Mark it is and AMD is making it worse and pushing Intel to do the same).
But no one is saying AMD is going to crush Intel in sales. They won't. Not ever.
But what they can do is put immense pressure on them by taking more and more of a cut of their markets. Specially ones a lucrative as the HDET (for its niche value) and Server. AMD just plainly can't handle one major companies orders let alone all of them. What they can do is sell better products and sell everything they can.
That is what AMD is doing and along that lines. Forwhatever AMD loses in Ryzen. They gain back in Threadripper. They win in Cache, they win in IPC, they the win in power/perf under settings where they aren't pushing clocks purely for clocks (the X lineup in AM4). Threadripper at its small config would already a you put it curb stomp Intel's next HDET lineup. 32 cores, decent clocks specially on the all core level. That's with an already ipc advantage. Then add more IO and then add that IO is PCIe 4.0.
This isn't something we need to see tested. We already have Ryzen and EPYC setting the ground work. Everything that set TR1-2 back is gone. Mem latency compared to Ryzen is gone. Numa is gone. Core to core latency is gone. TR3 outside AMD doing something crazy with clock speeds already has pretty well outlined performance. Same thing with Cascade Lake X. Its SL-X with a little bit higher clocks. Same cores, same mesh config, pretty much the exact same silicon on a refined process with refined fabing. So in this sense its just about awaiting the releases so we have the hard numbers to back it up.
Doesn't mean Intel is dead, doesn't mean they are closing up shop, doesn't mean Intel doesn't sell more of these then AMD sells of Threadripper. Just that these Chips are DOA as far a people who actually track this. The only reason to get a Cascade-Lake X cpu if you know better will be if you already have a x299 system and Intel actually prices their CPU's competitively and you can look at getting a much more competitively priced 12c+. That's assuming that Intel doesn't require a new board even if they keep the chipsets the same. They usually down't support more then 1 refresh on a platform.