As a major fan of AMD, I make an effort to be aware of all news updates regarding that company, but, in recent articles, AMD has not made any mention of a successor CPU to their Vishera line of processors, based off their "piledriver" microarchitecture. They have mentioned new GPU's and APU's in their announcements, but not new CPU's, and I am displeased by that news, or lack thereof.
I understand that AMD wishes to focus on their APU's, which combine the architecture of a CPU and GPU, and that some of their APU's are excellent processors, but APU's are not yet as powerful as are dedicated CPU's, so I do hope that AMD is not completely abandoning those units. Their "piledriver" line was an improvement over the "bulldozer" line, and if the "steamroller" CPU's were to improve by the same margin, they may be serious rivals to Intel's best processors, which would be good for AMD, and the CPU market overall. I do not wish to AMD to concede the market for high-performance desktop processors to Intel, but this situation is highly uncertain at the present time.
What does everyone else say? Do you believe that AMD is abandoning discrete desktop processors, or are they merely being extremely secretive about any future products of theirs?