[Slartie]

This was the reason for me to still buy AMD shares when they were deep underwater. I considered them basically immortal, because if the company ever was in existential danger, Intel would have a huge incentive to stage some kind of indirect rescue operation (not outright buying, that would kill the goose, but something else that surely would prop up AMD share value), because the monetary value of AMD as an antitrust insurance was easily much higher than AMDs market cap.

Sold those shares way too early in hindsight, but still got a good return out of that thinking, and if AMD ever gets into trouble again, I won't hesitate to apply the same logic.