It's possible, but the usual pattern is that Intel is slightly price-competitive with AMD when the CPUs are in the same range of performance, and then Intel's p

It's possible, but the usual pattern is that Intel is slightly price-competitive with AMD when the CPUs are in the same range of performance, and then Intel's prices just rocket upward after that. There's no reason to not come out with an $8,000 desktop CPU if they can get more performance.