Doesn&#x27;t deny his thesis, though?  K7 out-of-order was great when Intel went on their P4 &quot;Marketecture&quot; boondoggle, AMD64 was <i>great</i>, K8 + Hypertransport plus on chip memory controllers blew Intel out of the water in pretty much every way, IA-64 couldn&#x27;t compete.<p>But they took their eyes off the ball, bought ATI, took 4 and a half years to update their microarchtecture, and the first shipped K10h chips had a bad TLB, requiring them to stop shipping until the next stepping fixed that 6 months later.<p>I really liked them in that heyday, and, oh, back in the 486 DX4 days, but given their many decades losing corporate DNA (I&#x27;m sure it&#x27;s still true they haven&#x27;t in the long run made money for their shareholders), and their having to sell their foundries, it&#x27;s doubtful they&#x27;ll again be a big player.