AvonX Well if this works out well for amd,the 334 million they gave for the acquisition of Sea Micro would be a small number of cash compared to what profit will bring them.

And then they will have allot more cash to spend on r&d. ;)

trickson Oh yeah Intel has such a HUGE share of the market already!

Exactly. Not only do they get technologies faster, gaining them higher profits in the long run, but they also get another brand name behind them. Also adding to the profit. Plus, with AMD moving towards more SOC - like chips and higher power efficiency, it should end up interesting. I mean heck, look at brazos and zacate vs atom.Plus, AMD might get some more power saving tech out of this, which would help seeing as they're behind in the die shrink game. And would mean they could compete more.Other bits aside, I'm not entirely sure Intel thought AMD would take this move, or simply don't think it will give AMD enough of an edge with Intel being ahead a die shrink and having so much market share it's a near monopoly. Hopefully this will give AMD an edge and they will gain a good bit of market share so we get better consumer chips too out of the tech spawned from the competition.