Man, and here I was hoping they would spin off ATI again. It would've been very interesting had AMD and Nvidia actually gotten together.^ AMD just hasn't been the same since they ate the poison apple.
Well ATI isnt doing all that bad right now. Its AMD's microprocessor business that isnt doing all that great right now.
I read in a book about Intel (Inside Intel), that AMD has a funny role in the market: To supply chips when Intel can't (for whatever reason). Everyone sees them as a CPU business competing with Intel, but in fact, they are in a way, partners.
I also came away from that book with Grove (or Moore?) 's "Only the paranoid survive".