- Intel plateaued, no significant user-appreciated progress in the past 5+ years<p>- problems with scalable 10nm, 14nm might be the next 28nm for a while and all manufacturers will catch up, obliterating Intel&#x27;s major advantage<p>- Zen might be sufficiently competitive with older Core chips on performance, power and price, better on GPU side (hopefully not another Barcelona)<p>- all major consoles run on AMD<p>- Polaris vs Pascal<p>- they might survive until 2017 and have cash to produce new chips