For me, there are a lot of considerations I make and put behind what I buy. I still may buy AMD. Let's see what their single core performance is like. From what I am hearing, their new memory controller is going to fix a lot of AMD's memory issues. That sounds promising. Also, single core performance is supposed to increast 10 - 12 - 15%. If I can get an AMD 16 Core that beats Intel across the board, gaming and productivity then I will make the move. I have a feeling that Intel is still going to be extremely competitive. I really think Intel could possible have a 10nm 20 core CPU to take on AMD in the coming months. They could easily fit 20 Cores @ 10nm on their new 1200 socket. Even 18 Core 10nm could very possibly run at 4.8+ all cores. I mean, it's so exciting to think about this massive push between AMD and Intel that really benefits us PC guys. So god damn exciting.
That would be awesome if it happened, but I don't suspect we're going to see that until 2021 at the earliest. There just aren't any signs that they've got 10nm figured out quite yet, although I do hope it happens. Cooling it might be a pain though.
I really want 10nm; desktop sure, but also a full Tremont refresh for real on the Atom side for microservers and the like, and the next generation of Xeons (although Cascade Lake R is rocking that side pretty well given how they're priced). My Avoton systems are getting OLD as shit.