It is evident that consumers and IT buyers are suffering in the desktop and workstation markets due to weak competition from Intel's only real competitor. Either AMD needs to come up with a new winning design, something not immediately evident from its current roadmaps, VIA needs to buck up and take a shot at the mainstream, or even more unlikely a new entrant such as Nvidia would need to come up with a serious first entry into the market to shake things up.

Ok, seriously, VIA? I like VIA, but they are not fielding a mainstream CPU.

We've seen this incumbent dominant position held by Intel before. Before AMD mounted a strong challenge with its Athlon offerings, Intel had a less than stellar processor offering with its Pentium 4 Netburst architecture, which was deservingly lambasted as power-hungry and stubbornly unscalable.

Uhh, the Athlon was out way before Intel's Netburst architecture. It went head to head with the Pentium III.

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