Although I do agree that AMD is in trouble and is in serious need of restructuring, I dont think they'll fold or go out of business. AMD has always been and most likely always will be the underdog. Yes they're doing bad right now, but in reality all tech seems to go in cycles. Some major examples are
AMD v Intel
Western Digital v Seagate
ATi v Nvidia
and so on ........... Give it some time and I bet AMD will come back yet again , then after that they'll get knocked back down and so on and so on
*I'm actually fairly happy with my purchase of the Phenom 9500, and I'll keep on buying AMD and Intel without regaurd for any "benchmark" hype, I just like buying cpu's
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