AMD are tearing Intel to pieces at the moment, it's absolutely fucking hilarious to watch. Intel has been resting on their laurels for years, whilst AMD has been fighting death. They haven't pushed the envelope at all, merely pocketing all that sweet sweet investor wedge and letting their tech stagnate.
Turns out that AMD were working quite hard behind the scenes, and not only have their brought the fight to Intel, but they've quite positively wiped the floor with Intel. Make no mistake, they're going to need to work pretty fucking hard to stay ahead as Intel have no doubt just lumped a few hundred million at least in to their R&D department and when that line of chips comes out, AMD will need to be on point.
I really hope that AMD also pour tons of money in to GPU development, they've been the budget and mid-range king for a few years now, but we need to see the glory days of the 6970/7970 return.
This video is pretty damn good to highlight quite what a remarkable performance AMD has achieved in the CPU world: