AMD by the end of the 2000s was beaten and broke. And by 2009 AMD was so down in the dumbs that they settled the lawsuit with Intel on arguably not favorable te

AMD by the end of the 2000s was beaten and broke. And by 2009 AMD was so down in the dumbs that they settled the lawsuit with Intel on arguably not favorable terms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Micro_Devices,_Inc._v._Intel_Corp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Micro_Devices,_Inc._v.... We have to remember that Intel went all in on Itanium and it was AMD who made 64bit happen. They absolutely kicked Intels ass on performance and price for quite a while but were not able to leverage that. So yes, the future would have been quite different.