I don't think AMD is as interested in blowing Intel away at the high end as they are in blowing them away in mainstream with their new APUs. Bulldozer will be an excellent chip at a good price point. However, Llano and in the future, Trinity are where their real profits will be.

Trinity apparently can run Deus Ex. You can bet that this is where they are placing their main focus. High end enthusiasts represents a small part of the market. They have to increase profits in order to better fund R&D for said products, and you aren't going to do that with lower volume products. Take my company for example. I work in the commercial HVAC industry. The residential business makes all of the money, and our profits are insignificant next to their billions. So its not enough to fund big projects. So we're all pretty much dependent on the biggest business. For AMD, that is mainstream.

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