i find it funny how everyone tries to interpret what i they think i am saying.
I know what you are saying, but in your enthusiasm you are taking it too far, and making too grandiose conclusions about it. It is really good to see that AMD has a play here, but you're extrapolating so much and taking it so far.
Understand that people have said what you are saying now, with as much conviction about numerous 'market shifts' that were bigger than the one you have attached yourself to here. They have been wrong for a host of reasons, usually because they look at the markets too simplistically.
The point im trying to make here is that for the first time in history nearly every game is going to be made for AMD technology Both GPU and CPU. Intel may sit at the top due to its single threaded advantage today but do you think its a coincidence that the consoles are both getting 8 core CPU's? There has to be some strategy here from AMD.
Intels superior single threaded performance really starts to become less relevant when all games have 8 threads. Plus they are going to be optimised for AMD from the ground up. For the first time games are being made for AMD and AMD alone.
That's a good thing for AMD and it gives them a play going forward, but there is really no barrier of entry for Intel to excel at more cores.
Many console games will be made for the specific configurations of those consoles, some of those will be ported to PC and maintain some optimizations that utilize more threads. But a lot of optimizations for those consoles aren't going to translate to the PC market since they are specific to the configurations of those consoles, and those that do will most often benefit both. More use of threading is ultimately good for both AMD and Intel. It may actually drive more demand to Intel's higher end desktop offerings that otherwise wouldn't be as strong. Intel isn't exactly a fish out of water here..
Intels market is shrinking already and they have nothing in the mobile space and have nearly no partners in the tablet space either. No way can intel maintain 60% margins going forward.
So if mobile belongs to ARM and then maybe gaming goes to AMD (obviously speculation) Intel is basically going to have to go after low end laptops and the server market?
I'm not sure you understand what the mobile space is unless you think it means mobile phone. Intel has a large presence in mobile, and Haswell with it's emphasis on lower power consumption is completely targeted towards the mobile market. There is no barrier to entry for Intel to make headway in tablets, nor can you assume that there is going to be clear divides going forward between a 'tablet' and a 'laptop'. Increasingly people want a product that functions as both a tablet and a traditional laptop (i.e. any of the early convertible designs out there). Intel has a clear play there with the x86 software ecosystem. ARM is increasingly having to increase performance to keep up, while Intel is scaling down and are improving drastically in power consumption (if early indication of haswell are true).
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