Intel has moved its focus from the home/small business space, to mobile, AI compute servers, their upcoming dedicated GPUs are the big new development in this space. While the failure to move from 14nm to 10nm the last few years has hurt them, what really got them was shifting resources elsewhere, along side the performance loss from firmware/hardware problems in their CPUs, spectator/meltdown and so on. It's only the next generation chips that will finally deal with these on a hardware level.
Is Intel losing the desktop CPU market now? Yes. Do they care? Not sure, it is a quickly shrinking market. What I don't get is the lack of focus on improving in the high end sever space, but I suppose the compute focused GPU's are supposed to kick AMD Radeon in the pants and finished what Nvidia started years ago. I suspect Intel's real focus is moving to compete with CUDA and Nvidia's AI servers, which will have a big impact in the future.
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