AMD's latest CPU, Bulldozer was pretty much considered a flop/disappointment by most enthusiasts. Instead of designing them by hand, they allowed automatic algorithms to design them and they came up unoptimized and performed even worse than some of their older CPUs. AMD was battered financially and just eliminated 10% of it's workforce last month.
AMD is doing quite poorly. I don't see AMD being able to compete with Intel, even on the lower priced CPUs for quite a long time. It may not even be possible given the state of the company and how it's fallen.
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