Those 2003 (AMD Opteron) - 2007 (Intel Core 2) years were some of the most successful years for AMD, and it continued for a little while after until they couldn

Those 2003 (AMD Opteron) - 2007 (Intel Core 2) years were some of the most successful years for AMD, and it continued for a little while after until they couldn't keep up anymore. If the result of this is that AMD gains in power and market share for a few years and then the there will be another major leap in CPU quality due to Intel, I'd consider that pretty good.