Kinda sad, I guess...I've had a couple of AMD-powered boxes over the years and never had any more issues with them than I had with Intel.

A few years back I used a modest HP desktop with an AMD chip and WindowsME (of all things) to run some really heavy, glutonous software like application servers and development platforms, and it ran like a champ. Then I'd fire up some weighty graphics software like Lightwave and Photoshop, and I always expected to get a small puff of foul-smelling smoke as the chip finally attained fusion temperatures, but that little trooper never let me down.

If AMD folds, I'll hazard a guess that the marketplace may miss them. Or maybe not, who knows.