"The critical thing you constantly fail to comprehend is that Intel has simply never faced-off against a robust alternative consumer platform before?"
Pardon me for laughing fpg but you surely aren't implying that AMD under Hector Ruiz leadership was not a formidable competitor? Banish the thought!! And fpg superlatives stem from R&D, I can't understand after all these years while you were focusing on recurring net operating losses you don't know this?