HMMM:
http://www.techpowerup.com/164915/AMD-Gains-CPU-Market-Share-at-Intel-s-Expense-in-Q1.html
IIRC,sales in Asia have been quite decent,so their APUs are a good strategy for them.
43% of the desktop market? that's more than i thought.
As for APU's, they work well as there the only thing that will enable a laptop to play DX11 games.
Even the old out going A8's on DIE GPU is 30% faster than Intel's best HD 4000 GFX, The in coming Trinity is 50% faster than the A8.
BF3 on a Laptop without the need for expensive discrete mobile GPU's.... no problem, and as an added bonus you save a lot of battery power.
Its the same story with Desktop APU's, and they can crossfire with a cheap 6670 GPU which will bring it up to 7770 levels for little money.
APU's are also hardware wired to use the on DIE GPU as a compute accelerator.
So x86 apps like Photoshop get a massive performance boost. so much your talking in multiples, not percentages.
Its the way of the future.