Good. I hope their overpriced cards make their sales plummet even further, because Nvidia are a joke right now. I can buy a 7970 for the same price as a GTX 760, which is ridiculous considering the 7970 goes head to head with the Titan in compute, GTX 770 in gaming and comes with Blood Dragon, Bioshock Infinite and Crysis 3. I came very close to switching to AMD this generation, it will be even more tempting next gen with BF4 bundled and AMD having all games optimized for their cards exclusively. One thing is for sure, if Nvidia decides to hold back on Maxwell and release the full Kepler GK110 to compete with AMD's Hawaii instead, or if they decide to release some underperforming Maxwell part, I will be going AMD permanently for all my future GPUs. I will be upgrading soon for Battlefield 4 and whatever card will run it at 60FPS minimum will get my money.

Quit sounding like a couple of butthurt teletubbies and talk relevancy about the topic at hand rather than about how much each other "thinks" the other person knows.



AMD is starting to get a foothold with it's APU division and spreading it out as much as possible. Desktops, notebooks, and ultrabooks are just the start of it. They've already got their parts in a few tablets and if they're smart, they will make the move to produce efficient enough APUs that can be featured in smartphones. That is where I think the biggest impact will take place. Now don't get me wrong, if efficiency wasn't a factor and it was boiling all down to price/performance, I think AMD would have an even larger piece of the pie than what they already have now. But since that's not the case, they seem to be making decent strides in regards to efficiency, which is what the market wants. How this all plays out will be dependant mostly on what consumers decide what to do with their new purchases and upgrade paths, what companies decide who to feature in their next big smartphone/tablet, and whether or not their willing to pay for what they are offering.



Servers are a whole other thing which I don't know much about so I won't comment on that aspect of the business. But if they tweak their business model a little bit to work with what data centers put inside their buildings, they can take a good chunk of market share on that end as well. But as always, first, efficiency is the key, then you market the product as best you can.



Nvidia's Shield hasn't really catapulted them as a contender against the other portable systems such as the 3DS and VITA. They have their own specialized market for this thing which I don't think will make them too much money. I haven't read too many reports on post-launch of Shield, but I don't hear anything astonishing about it.



And Intel, well, I don't see anything being radically different on their end. They are delivering like they have always been. We'll see what happens down the road when Broadwell launches. If they can increase the output of their IGP, I think they can be competitive with AMD against their APUs. Intel will most likely continue in the same direction they took with Haswell and improve the GPU further in Broadwell and increase the IPC of the CPU part of it about another ~10 percent.