Intel survives and dominates because of the laptop market. The desktop war is over for intel. AMD must put all efforts into building a mobile CPU that can compete with intel's CPUs at half the price. AMD has failed to get the leading laptop makers on board thus far even though they have better onboard graphics. Also they must do something about quick sync. They have so far failed to get a working relationship going with Adobe systems. As long as adobe has a bias towards intel, content creators will think twice before investing in and AMD system.