Quote Originally Posted by BeepBeep2 View Post
You realize, if they had good competition...that would be mainstream
Not necessarily. Intel's high end has always been expensive, even when they were getting beaten by the original FX their high-end chips were still expensive, and people still bought them.

Quote Originally Posted by BeepBeep2 View Post
That tiny high margin part of the market is rather quite large when you consider that Intel owns 100% of it and 80% of the overall market.
What do you think matters more to AMD: OEM's who order in the thousands, or a tiny sliver of enthusiasts who moan about 10% in a benchmark? The only OEM's ordering high-end parts are specialist custom builders who would be lucky to sell 1,000 units a year. It's not "rather quite large", it absolutely pales in comparison.