I just hate the idea that Zen might die on the birthing blocks at this rate. AMD has made amazing technological leaps and really I think per pound of engineer and per R&D dollar they're more efficient than Intel.
What a sad thing, if AMD dies early.
Take in care something: AMD dies, nVIDIA leaves the x86 market soon after since Intel would start to find a way to lock nVILINK and nerf PCI-e and since they are with the US government, they won't be sued at least initially. Also nVIDIA knows that the dGPU market is slowly dying and without competition, they won't continue the situation like that. They are moving too. They are going Post PC too. They won't waste time on a market who is about to die and without competition, they know that they won't last long enough.
Also it means the death of GloFo (yeah, AMD dies, they do too) and a MASSIVE defeat of Samsung, Khronos (Vulkan) , Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft since the first will lose a key client, the 2nd will lose a BIG supporter, the 3er will lose their only CHEAP way to enter to the current graphics market (they won't move to Intel or nVIDIA, so they will be Power PC all over again and you know how they looks on that), Sony will lose a lot of boost and since they won't move to Intel... maybe they go ARM...
And Microsoft simply leave for real the Console World since Intel is about to enter to that world too and they have other priorities. Even more, since XBox One didn't sold well and is still NOT selling in most countries, seems that this is the last generation from MS on the console world, also they started to focus on PC world again.
Even more, that will mark a defeat of VIA since they need a mid tier competitor to stay alive, without them, Intel will likely to revoke their x86 licence.