According to the article , intel's strength is in per thread performance.But most of today's heavy applications enjoy multi-thread performance: Multi-user serve

According to the article , intel's strength is in per thread performance.But most of today's heavy applications enjoy multi-thread performance: Multi-user servers, Heavy math applications and other applications written with today's better multi-programming tools. So that means selling a lot less chips. But that bad for intel's business model , and get worse with moore's law(they gotta sell double number of transistors). Now about demise: it's hard to tell because it depends minimum sales intel needs to sustain it's business model, But intel are trying to counteract that with several interesting moves: 1. An integrated pc platform strategy: CPU+GPU integration , chipsets with better integration with their flash modules(z86 chipset), buying an anti-virus software. This way they can get more money and have more control on the pc market. This may compensate them on decreasing volumes. And hurt GPU manufacturers along the way. 2. Finding new sources for chip manufacturing r&d investments: Manufacturing flash, letting non-competing companies manufacture chips using intel fabs. 3. trying hard to compete on the multi-core performance game: letting old code(c++/fortran, etc) run faster on a 64-core intel platfrom might be more appealing than needing to import that code to a GPU.Working on parallel development tools also helps there.