Intel right now, have dominated almost all aspects of PC uses. AMD however, have fallen behind, but they still have a grip on the consumers on a budget offering pretty good cheap chips (X2 3600 for 80 bucks). Another point for AMD is that they still offer affordable SLi, with SLi ready boards starting at just 100 bucks while intel boards with 680 and 650i chipsets are still hovering around the high 200 and 300 dollar range (aussie dollars of course). The real hopes for AMD to catch up with intel, I believe, is to start churning out some heavyweights that match the E6850 (drop the prices of the X2 6000 around 50-70 dollars cheaper), but for cheaper, or, produce quad-cores that perform well above the current intel quads.