Can The European Commission Prevent Intel From Destroying AMD?

Abu Dhabi invested more than $6 billion in the company's Spin Off (The Foundry Company) back in February 2009. But then what if AMD fails?

And yes, the issue here is about the survival of AMD. Intel has become too powerful like AT&T in its heydays. Each new AMD product is only pushing away what seems to be ineluctable and only governmental intervention (or a white knight like Apple or IBM) can prevent Intel from becoming an absolute monopoly.

As Anand Lai Shimpi from popular tech website puts it "I'm far less concerned about who pulls ahead [...] and far more concerned about AMD's health at the end of all of this. Maybe the right way of looking at this isn't by talking about a 6% performance advantage, but instead talking about whether or not you want there to be a real competitor to Intel in the future."

It will remind the wiser generation of the 25-year battle between the bloodied Chimpzilla and the heavy weight Chipzilla. And lest not forget the likes of IDT, Cyrix, Nexgen or Digital which were part of the story as well. We don't want longer product cycles and $1000 microprocessors ever again.