I dont think Intel will lose to AMD anytime soon. They're too embedded in the industry for now, and have been known to illegally force OEMs to use their processors instead of AMD. they have the cash to do it, too.

They need something to compete with atoms too, IMO. There is quite a variety of form factors that use atoms. I would love to see a competitor for the intel compute stick from Amd. Also, Netbook may be dead, but it's successor lives on and people do buy them (though in less volume, admittedly). If AMD can get it to work on android, then alk the better, opportunity wise as it opens up a new market.

Tom's has published an article on Ryzen update for Ashes of Singularity.

Only one title, sure... but it does demonstrate that there may be untapped potential if only the concerned parties will spend resources for it.

quoted from the article:

"We tested both AMD and Intel processors before and after applying the patch, recording an impressive increase in CPU performance at 1920x1080. The Ryzen 7 1800X trailed Intel's Core i7-7700K before the update, but swapped positions after we activated the new code. The 1800X notched a 16.36% increase, which falls short of AMD's projections, but again, we're using a different preset as AMD."

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-ryzen...tion,34021.html