[citation][nom]husker[/nom]"Only three processors saw price reductions, indicating the current dominance of Intel in the CPU market."This is why we should all be hoping AMD has some success with piledriver. That is, unless you like paying more money just so you can feel smug about yourself.[/citation]
I'm just expecting them to cancel desktop FX. October is coming fast for the delayed Trinity launch, Haswell is not far away at all, and Steamroller is finished. I know Piledriver will easily improve on Bulldozer, but Steamroller will curb-stomp the pair of them. Is there any point releasing the x3xx CPUs if they're not a big improvement over their predecessors? I await the reviews with baited breath but you just know the reviews will sum it up as "more of the same, just less greedy".
Haswell is far more of a graphics update - AMD do actually have an avenue here if they can get Steamroller out before 2014. At the very least, compared to Piledriver, single threaded workloads will be significantly faster, and resourcing sharing issues will be largely improved, so they can finally banish the memory of struggling to beat Phenom II X6. It won't level the playing field in single threaded work but if all those cores can finally work, it could consistently out-muscle your standard 4C/8T i7. We all live in hope.