Nothing Intel can do, once they relinquished those rights back in the day it left AMD open to do whatever it is they wanted with it. They still own the second firm they're just acquiring new investors and splitting it off so that the manufacturing debt won't necessarily reflect directly on AMD; this leaves them open to push development of ATI and AMD further. I think it's a good thing!
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