Interesting. As long as they don't put AMD in their laptops or tablets.

What is everyone's problem? You think just because Samsung buy the company they will leave it as it is and not try and improve it? Samsung have huge wealth and technical know how, huge research resources. They could improve AMD a lot as a company.

This could be great news for AMD, because they really need the financial backing of a big parent company like Samsung.

Honestly, the only reason this is relevant to me is because of the rumor that the NX might use AMD architecture. How does this effect that?

What would Intel have to loose?

If you mean the control over their license, just consider 2 things:

1. Some years in court would pass before that happens, giving Intel a massive head start.

2. they would still hold control over extensions of the original code like MMX and the different SSE Versions. Since nearly all the programms are making very extensive use of them (to the point of not working without them in most cases), the chips wouldn't be fully compatible with modern Intel processors and programms written for them and would also be severly slowed down without all this additional Opcode.

So, I'd rather think Intel would not make a new contract with any other party even if AMD is out of the picture until their advantage is so big that it wouldn't make a point to do so anyway.

Cant see it as a good thing for gamer's. Maybe corporations yes but not really for gamer's.