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.
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".
^ Which almost happened, twice: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/amd-nvidia-merger,review-1061.ht...