When the laptop you buy in 2010 comes with a connector from 1987 you know your standards body isn't working. Yet, VESA tries and tries again. I expect DisplayPort to join DVI and VLB on the trash heap.

CPU success is all about yield and it doesn't matter how may billions of people they have or how cheap the labor is, Intel doesn't "out-innovate" their competitors, they out-manufacture them. (ask AMD)