AMD is in the rebuilding phase right now. They've openly admitted that they paid too much to buy ATI. Which was a horrible decision in my opinion. Why would a chip maker that has a small portion of the processor market shackle themselves to a GPU maker that's just lost a good chunk of the videocard market?

The latest article I read had the CEO making questionable decisions and the COO as a potential successor. So there may be yet another blow to the company coming.

They've gotten stomped performance-wise by Intel for the past year. Power per dollar the way to go right now is with Intel. Also the Core 2 duo are less power hungry than the latest 2 and 4 core AMD chips.

I really hope AMD can recover. It was great when the Athlon first came out and it was kicking the crap out of the Pentium lineup. Competition brings out innovation and that's always a good thing.