>It does help to have billions to invest. AMD in the last 20 years was basically broke You're making it sound like AMD being broke at that time was some unfor

>It does help to have billions to invest. AMD in the last 20 years was basically broke You're making it sound like AMD being broke at that time was some unfortunate accident due to external events, and not the result of their own blunders. Nvidia had billions due to great products and great business decisions on their part, and AMD was broke entirely due to it's own actions, by having average products on the CPU side and making bad business decisions at the time by spending way too much money acquiring ATI, and then selling off their golden goose, the Imageon mobile GPU division to Qualcomm for pennies right at the beginning of the smartphone revolution. It's a miracle they managed to turn things around and not end up like SGI and 3dfx, bankrupt and having their carcass devoured by Intel and Nvidia.