The way I understand it, AMD was in bad financial shape after purchasing ATI. Then they did the conservative thing by letting Intel release i7 unchallenged, an

The way I understand it, AMD was in bad financial shape after purchasing ATI. Then they did the conservative thing by letting Intel release i7 unchallenged, and investing in their process/research for the next big release they do. MaximumPC had a good article on this back in the day.