content: Gosh, then gaming might really die. However ARM is trying their best to compete in the market so that's good. The reason I say gaming might die is because price would skyrocket and performance increase will stagnate. For example if price only doubled instead of going up by say 4x, then probably Intel would hold back any research-to-launch projects and just keep their prototypes lined up for when they're ready. They'll essentially performance-fix the technological advances of computing worldwide and slow it down so they can get maximum profits. With AMD being close on their tail (but many Intel fanboys will still trash them) Intel still has to work hard.  AMD is super disadvantaged even now though as Intel has all the partnerships and all the resources to cut prices to OEM's at times and increase everything overall by even a little. Alongside optimization, Intel wins out in terms of the contract market. For gamers, the FX processors are amazing and work just fine. They're not the best, but they are NOT bad at all, they are very effective for what they do and the price they do it at. Especially for overclockers.