At the moment, Intel Core 2 Duos and Quads are rocking all the way if .erformance is concerned.....But AMD prcocessors are cheap.
AMD was pawning Intel Pentium 4 a couple of years ago with their Athlon 64s but at the moment Intel is doing good.
Also, Intel processors are an overclocker's heaven......
AMD really need to come up with some Intel killer CPU.....
I've my eyes of the AMDs Fusion platform which is going to feature CPU & GPU on the same dye. It is considered the last hope of AMD to rock again if they don't develop an Intel killer processor.....
Anyways, ATI is doing good if graphic cards are concerned.
EDIT:
I'm an AMD fan, but if looking at the current scenario, Intel pawns AMD completely.....
If we talk about the History, AMD's Athlon 64 were totally pawning Intel's Pentium 4s like the way today Intel is pawning AMD.....
But I don't want Intel to have a complete monoply over the processor market. AMD should come up with some good processor that competes with Intel Quads. Anyways, AMD's Fusion platform (GPU & CPU on the same die) looks promising.