AMD product path...

My current build is based on the belief that AMD would finish and release the desktop version of the steamroller architecture, and that it would indeed be AM3+ compatible.

The FX-8350 (Piledriver) performs very well, but it was the next generation, whose tweaks promised much-improved single core execution, that I was planning for.  I am feeling an ominous cloud hovering in regards to AMD ever releasing Steamroller.  All the road maps that have been released over the past year leave off the desktop CPU path and focuses on APUs and server CPU SOCs.

Much has been written about how AMD has restructured itself in an effort to better compete with Intel, to focus on niches where they have traditionally beaten Intel... how (this is from memory, it could be 60%-70%) almost 80% of their focus will now be APU and SOCs.  I am beginning to think I wasted my build $$$.  This build must last me 2 years...  I suppose if AMD does ditch its desktop workstation line of CPUs I will simply HAVE to look at the new Mac Pro.  :)

Anyway, I hope my worriers are unfounded.