[anonymous_sorry]

Well, but there absolutely are such things as coincidences. It is obvious that coincidences are to be expected.

Combinatorial mathematics actually says certain types of coincidence happen more often than we seem to expect intuitively (eg. the Birthday "Paradox").

I have no particular view on AMD. But any argument that includes "I don't believe in coincidences" should probably be weakened in your estimation.

[nekusar]

Adam Smith warns that "people of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices". Book I, Ch. X, Part II; ~p. 54 .

A meteor or some natural phenomenon can be a coincidence. But especially so in industry, especially the same industry... with the respective CEOs as family, i wholeheartedly reject "coincidences".

The C word that should be used instead is "conspiracy".