> Intel and nVidia can eat AMD alive anytime they want. Invidually or together. Once, or many times. Except they can't. 1) Since I'm assuming you're talking a

> Intel and nVidia can eat AMD alive anytime they want. Invidually or together. Once, or many times. Except they can't. 1) Since I'm assuming you're talking about CPUs, nVidia can't make x86-64 processors. Only AMD and Intel can. Literally. They can't use that ISA. Maybe they can take them in the GPU market, but again, they probably still can't. 2) Intel looks like they can, and they do in fact have the funds to do it. But that's just not how it works. AMD has decoupled their tapping and design long ago. Intel still hasn't. The speed at which Intel can innovate is becoming very limited. So while they might catch up, and follow suit, it looks like Intel can't "eat" AMD at this point in time. At least not product wise. Maybe in 5 or 10 years, if AMD starts slacking off again.