Then think harder



R&D costs shitloads of money, developing a new architecture takes years (as in it takes up to 5 years or more for an architecture to go from early concept to becoming an actual product), they spent tons on making athlon xp and amd64 architectures , both superior to intel's cpus of the time.

They didn't get their money back because intel threatened OEM's into not making amd OEM pcs.



This left them with very little money for future r&d so they couldn't compete, once they couldn't compete they made even less money which meant event less money for more r&d



they ended up sticking with phenom II architecture (their last decent architecture)for a long ass time , which was a dead end, and then their successor bulldozer turned out shit.

They've been firing staff and bleeding good engineers for the past 2-3 years so now they are utterly fucked.



Enjoy your future monopoly. When intel has no incentive to compete anymore their superior architecture will no longer be iterated on and will be sold at a huge premium.



The past few years of less and less oc room, arbitrarily locking out overclocking on cheaper motherboards and cpus and hotter intel cpus with tiny performance bumps is just the beginning.

If amd bows out you'll be paying apple prices for your hardware.



Also amd did do something, intel got sued, lost in court but instead of having to pay the appropriate amount of money to amd they got hit with a token fine that they could happely file under 'misc expenses' , well worth the investment to kill off the competition.