Intel Corp (INTC)

[morrowinder]

FPG: So the payments ended in 2006...

How come I didn't see any change in the competitive landscape over the last 5 years? Wasn't this allegedly stifling anti-trust violation crushing AMD? The floodgates of AMD product never appeared at Dell. Partially because AMD itself FAILED to execute once it had some orders. So doesn't this support the idea that rather than Intel crushing AMD, AMD really just shoots itself in the foot over and over? That AMD never could support Intel-like volumes and was always limited by what its fabs could produce?

AMD hasn't appeared to gain any competitive advantages despite getting a billion from Intel, either. So what explains AMD's failure to succeed now that it has no anti-trust issues? In fact it has now shed its foundry and is in an even worse competitive position.