www.techpowerup.com/155920/AMD-To-Give-Up-Competing-With-Intel-On-x86-CPU-Prices-Already-Shooting-Up.html
www.tomshardware.com/news/AMD-APU-Z-Series-ARM-Tegra-3,14114.html

inb4 IBM buys AMD's x86 licence

upgrade ya pc now before wholesalers rape you in the ass like they did with hard drive prices

not good news, if intel have no competition, means prices will skyrocket as OP said... and they won't advance as far since there will be nothing to compete with.

This.

This will pretty much give Intel complete control of the high-end CPU market. As already mentioned, that means higher prices and slower advancements in technology because they aren't competing with anyone.

Hopefully AMD don't stop making CPUs completely, or another company buys them out to compete with Intel...

Its been a while coming tbh, intels domination of the market has been growing since the Pentium 4 days, ever since then AMD has not really been a serious competitor in terms of sales performance, if not CPU performance.

so while im not entirely surprised, it is a sad day for us rig builders.

Its also only a matter of time until ATi being owned by AMD as well, goes the same way. These days everyone is all about nvidia and once again AMD is failing to produce anything that will change the shape of that market as well. Having said that ill be buying ATi cards till the day they disappear.

i love how the guy writing it is clearly an amd fanboy, and doesnt actualy know anything about the intel chips

this is disapointing news, in all honesty i cannot understand why.

gpu's is where the moneys at.

Amd where only half decent in the near beginning, then ended somewhere along the road

AMD shouldn't make shit CPUs etc

You guys are LOL.

AMD isn't leaving the Desktop market. They're just not focusing on it anymore, and why should they? Obviously they cannot afford to keep rivaling Intel.

I doubt Intel will rise their prices on their products. If they did it will be the most stupidest thing a business can do.

BTW did you know AMD is releasing a re-branded memory line? I ******* lol'd.

Intel already have the next best item, 50 Cores.. it just won't be on the market for a year or 2

Do you know something we don't? Because I know you're not talking about Knight's Corner, which can't be used as a CPU. What processor does Intel have up its sleeve for release in the next 2 years that has 50 cores for the desktop market?

It's not a cpu, it's to go ALONG Side some of our xeons... so in otherwords it's still extremly powerful.... and did I ever say it was the actual cpu chip no lol

Bugger. I was hoping you had some news about an Intel 50 core CPU, seeing as this is a thread about CPUs and you said Intel has the next best thing

It is still a pretty big thing...

www.google.com.au/search?q=50+core+CPU

google broken??