The market for computing devices has shifted. Desktop devices aren't as useful as mobile devices, which also use less energy to achieve the same goal. Consumers

The market for computing devices has shifted. Desktop devices aren't as useful as mobile devices, which also use less energy to achieve the same goal. Consumers will leave behind companies which aren't making compelling mobile devices. Intel makes SSDs too. Intel made chipsets and wifi chips for centrino in the past. I think Intel has made every major internal PC component, just not all at the same time. Now, they're getting into ARM chips and fighting to put x86 into mobile. Likewise, nVidia has made nForce chipsets and other major PC components. And doesn't the Tegra also do general-purpose processing? Either way, they're becoming entrenched in mobile devices more firmly than Intel. AMD is better positioned to come up with a unified product, but after 10 years of fanboying for both brands, I'm still not convinced that their merger made any sense. A unified product could have been made from a technical partnership, without having to merge the companies. I haven't seen a compelling product since the merger. I haven't even seen a roadmap for a mobile device component. The AMD/ATI merger seemed only to happen because both companies were based in Canada. At this point, it only makes sense for AMD to swallow RIM, another Canadian company -- at least that way ATI would be a mobile device manufacturer.