Tl;dr: AMD turned itself from a domestic $5b company with 2,000 employees and no capital into a global leader in semiconductors while simultaneously enduring 30

Tl;dr: AMD turned itself from a domestic $5b company with 2,000 employees and no capital into a global leader in semiconductors while simultaneously enduring 30 years of crushing (and illegal) anti-competitive practices by it's primary competitor of 25 times its net worth and 50 times it's workforce strength. Now that AMD has managed to take those 2,000 American workers and push back against 80k American Intel workers + 20k Israeli Intel workers the US has decided it's not fair for "AMD to license it's highly proprietary, highly impressive, highly competitive products to undemocratic nations." cough-Israel-Wintel-lobbyists-cough