I'm sick and tired of people saying...
that AMD is going to go out of business. Intel was in the exact same situation 2 years ago ( maybe even worse). Think back to late 2000:
AMD had just introduced the 266MHz FSB and DDR (the AMD760 chipset)! Intel had recently cancelled mass production of the P3 1.13GHz after finding an instability issue. The 1.2GHz Athlon with DDR was killing the P3 1GHz. The Pentium4 was delayed. A while later, Intel introduced the Pentium 4 1.4GHz and 1.5GHz with RDRAM. RDRAM was still extremely expensive back then. To entice people to buy P4s, Intel included the RAM with the processor. However, the 1.2GHz Athlon was still outperforming the 1.5GHz P4 in many apps. It cost half as much and upgrading the RAM would've been a lot cheaper. At that time, no one in their right mind would buy a 1.5GHz P4 with RDRAM over a 1.2GHz Athlon.
Today, AMD is having trouble increasing the core speed of their processors (the same problem Intel was having with the Pentium 3 on the 0.18u coppermine core). A while ago, AMD released the TBred but it still underperformed Intel's latest (just as the 1.5GHz P4 was below the performance of the 1.2GHz Athlon). The original Pentium 4 didn't overclock too well, just as the TBred doesn't.
As you can see, history is merely repeating itself only in Intel's favour this time. If history continues repeating itself, the Hammer will be as successful to AMD as the Northwood is to Intel.