I don't know; and I'd at least be happier with a dutch auction approach where AMD got the lions share of sales of their CPUs and GPUs so that the money could be

I don't know; and I'd at least be happier with a dutch auction approach where AMD got the lions share of sales of their CPUs and GPUs so that the money could be invested in either more products soon, or better development later. At least in that case economically unnecessary middle-person impediments to customer fulfillment wouldn't reap the creator's profits.