The counterattack, will it works? This is just for practicing English writing. Maybe there are incorrect information. --- Intel, a well known CPU manufacture and industry leader, is going to collapse? About more than 10 years Intel has been a leader in CPU industry. Because, the direct competitor AMD has been done nothing over 10 years. Back late 90's, Intel's product portfolio was giant mass. They're making the worst CPU in history, the notorious Pentium 4 (prescott). Back then, AMD was the leader of the industry. They were launched the first 1Ghz consumer CPU and first x64 consumer product. And Intel was heavily struggling. Even if they launched their own x64 architecture called Itanium, but that failed miserably in the market. After sequential successes, AMD became cockier. They increase the price and less innovation in every revision. But Intel was thoroughly prepared for counterattack. That counterattack was the Core2 series. Core2 was true innovation. Low power consumption, multi core processing and x64 architecture in a single package. But counterpart of the AMD was not that great. Eventually AMD CPU's were known for the hotter, slower and higher power consumption. After domination of the CPU market more than 10 year, Intel stopped making innovation and trying other things. Such as Gigabit Lan, Integrated graphics, SSD and so on. Consumer CPU market is like Intel's monopoly. But over 10 years AMD preparing the counterattack. Which is ZEN architecture. About two week later, we can see AMD is back in competition or fail again. --- Thank you for correcting my notebook. :)