Either chip has it's strong points as well as thier weaknesses. It will be up to the masses to do thier homework about the cpu chip they want to have. The makers of the chips will do thier dead level best you can be asured of that, to get the buyer to buy thier cpu chip. It's not who has the most sexy ads or who has the market shares. It's going to be in the end the person buying the chip that will find which brand will do the job for them.
It's competition and it makes for hearty discussions like this one. There will always be the steadfast followers of the 2 major players in the game. I for one am a Intel user.