It's true that Intel manufactures superior CPU's. I do believe though, that as we see the continued convergence of the CPU and GPU onto a single die, that AMD has and will continue to have an obvious advantage having acquired ATI.
If intel could team up with Nvidia (this only makes sense to me apparently..??)...THAT would be awesome. I mean, I'd actually prefer to see them team up with AMD/ATI bc ATI chips are generally much less power hungry and it'd allow them to clock their new CPU/GPU's to a higher clock bc less heat prob, but that'll never happen.
Anyway, in a year or two, the vast majority of people will really not need a dedicated video card. These new combo chips will be doing a pretty damn good job of 3D rendering and video playback, program support ect.. It's a pretty exciting time 😀