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knightsilver
Samsung has enough on their plate, and agree they should at least break up their panel and mobile.  As for AMD, break up the CPU and GPU divisions , and get a CEO for the CPU side that's not a dumbjazz....

AMD seems to like playing 2nd place, Historiclly with their own design
 
1994 AMD 5x86 lost to Pentium but was cheaper
1995 K5 lost to Pentium but was cheaper
1996 K6 lost to Pentium II but was cheaper
1997 K6-2 lost to Pentium II but was cheaper
1999 K6-3 lost to Pentium III but was cheaper
1999 Athlon was faster than Pentium III
2000 Athlon T-bird faster than Pentium III Coppermine
2001 Athlon XP faster than P4 400/533 cpus
2002 Athlon XP slower than P4 800 cpu's priced similar
2003 Athlon 64 faster than P4
2005 AThlon 64 x2 faster than Pentium D
2006 Athlon 64 x2 AM2 lost to Core 2, but is cheaper
2007 Phenom lost to Core 2 
2008 Phenom II lost to i7 but was cheaper
2008 Athlon II lost to Core 2 but was cheaper
2011 FX lost to Core i3/i5/i7 but cheaper
 
So really we have the Athlon from 1999 untill 2002, then from A64 in 2003, till 2006, that gives AMD a solid 5 years as top dog, before the 5x86 AMD was simply cloning intel chips the AMD 486 was a reverse engineer, and the older was produced under license from intel. So in AMDs existance competeing in x86, from say 1979 until today, it has ruled the roost 5 years, intel has ruled it the rest of the time, but AMD has always offered a better value than intel
 

rjohnson11
Samsung has proven it can make great components to include mobile CPUs. They might be a company that could turn AMD around if they "wanted" to purchase the company.