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unkwn: It's not competition

Much of the low hanging fruit in CPU design is gone. Have you noticed that AMD is not exactly setting the world on fire catching up? Its all hard from here on out and process technology makes all the difference. SIMD instructions, SMT, integrated mem controllers, larger and faster cache, 64 bits, SSDs are all fait accompli on X86. And btw, your third CPU line already exists in the socket 2011 lineup. That will expand to 8 cores for those that need it and use DDR 4 in the 2nd half. As for mobile: Haswell has made tremendous strides in energy efficiency. And if you compare todays laptop chips to a 4 year old laptop, you see a pretty remarkable difference:

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/benchmarks/laptop/4th-gen-core-i5-4300m-vpro-4300m.html