TheELF
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Anything more cores would give a big performance boost to get's a big performance boost from GPUs,which is why both companies came to the conclusion back in 2005 that they would have to incorporate GPUs into their CPUs as co processors,the main thing intel is trying to get some good GPU IP going,that's my guess.I think the key to intel's next architecture (and the key to AMD's current one) is the ability to implement MCM. It is obvious that process tech improvements are slowing and becoming more expensive, so the necessity to leverage die area of multiple packages will become important for performance in the next decade.
For very specialized things that can't be run on GPU people already use many core ARM chips or stuff like xeonphi ,a lot of cores each running very slowly,such an co processor a mainstream CPU doesn't need and won't get for many many years.
They can't be overtaken they could be,in theory,be matched since once you are maximized there is no beyond maximized and if they would get matched intel would still be the first who got there.I'm opting for Moonbogg's alien technology I think that something completely new and modern is the way forward rather than redesigning the old and then sleepwalking with that for another decade. Unless they'd enjoy being overtaken by their sole competitor in the near future.