User-space interrupts

Now that Intel has lost the lead in silicon and raw performance, they're focusing on specialized hardware features that can directly benefit highly specific aspects of the software engineering problem space, particularly those aspects most important to their biggest customers (e.g. Google and Facebook application fleets, cloud hosting providers, etc), while also promoting vendor lock-in. Of course, the stagnation in clock rates and the weight of Amdahl's law also promote this shift. But we've seen this shift to specialized processor features many times before, most recently with HP and especially Sun as they struggled to compete with Intel. Many of Intel's recent hardware features are conspicuous for leveraging peculiarities of their ISA and architecture, for example TSX.

I don't know how self-aware Intel's strategies are, but it matters very little as their strategic options are strongly dictated by classic market dynamics. You can easily predict the directions they'll take, though that's not the same thing as predicting their success, and definitely not a prediction of their imminent demise.