For a while there AMD had nothing much to sell except Brazos chipsets, now they have a mort of stuff coming out that hits the nail pretty much on the x86 head.

http://liliputing.com/2013/05/amd-launches-temash-kabini-richland-chips-for-t...

Both AMD and Intel are getting closer to getting down into ARM land speed wise but both are still hampered battery life wise as neither has come up with an equivalent to ARM's Big LITTLE to keep the energy consumption down.

ARM has hit a seam in their own design road as the cheapie Chinese guys have chosen to milk the old "we already own the license" A9 designs to go way way beyond what ARM had intended for processor count, throughput and the unauthorized use of fast big third party GPUs to keep the 4 year old stuff competitive.

Part of this bobble is APPLE/ARM's own fault for moving through the A15 generation to the A57 generation in just one year.   Nobody wants to sink the cost of two licenses and all the development time into something that the Chinese are still going to be able to undercut with their 28 to 22 nanometer A9 cheapie quad core chipsets.

Next, 64 bit is coming -- sometime or another, right?  And 64 bit will wipe it all away, right?   But what is the advantage of rushing to going 64 bit right now with no 64 bit software and operating system to run on it?

So, the currently disjointed ARM universe is going to offer both Intel and AMD a full year's worth of bobble time to work with.   The 64 bit x86 complex instruction set guys need to take full advantage of this time in making a strong niche for themselves.

Apple was driving this ARM runaway speed train at full steam, but since Steve Jobs died on them Apple has gone silent -- no grandiose plans, no WOW featured new products, no nothing.  

Silent.

The 800 pound gorilla isn't doing anything, so Google and the rest are hanging loose right now, just trickling out last year's anti-Apple innovations to fight against a giant innovation sucking nothingness that is coming out of Apple right now.

Google is sitting on the next Nexus 7 and several other new products as they have no reason to roll them out until Apple comes out with their next products.

Google has them all ready, first production is DONE and pics and stuff are leaking all over the orient about the feature sets -- but with nobody forcing the new/wow issue so they are just sitting in boxes in a warehouse.

You don't throw down your counter move until the other guy's move takes place, right?