This is great. It's super important to have multiple market players producing CPUs; obviously AMD is not the same company as Intel, but we also really can't afford to have a monopoly in something as important as CPUs.
I'm pretty confident the situation wouldn't be that acceptable if all 3 weren't American corporations.
I don't see Intel listed at http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/amd/institutional-holdings
Where do you see they have an ownership stake? How much is it?
"Early 1980s--IBM chooses Intel's so-called x86 chip architecture and the DOS software operating system built by Microsoft. To avoid overdependence on Intel as its sole source of chips, IBM demands that Intel finds it a second supplier.
1982--Intel and AMD sign a technology exchange agreement making AMD a second supplier. The deal gives AMD access to Intel's so-called second-generation "286" chip technology."