He got to fly around the world in his suit spending money!
He was Super-Lawyer???
Spending money for his suit?
NReally? Your sure about that? You're sure that if Intel lost out badly during the P4 versus Opteron era, they would not be behing on their R&D (due to less money) and AMD would not be ahead (due to more money)?
Intel has a vast amount of business interests, not only in the processor market (at the time of Pentium iv I remember reading somewhere that the processor business was only 20% of all the Intel business), while most of AMD's was only in the processor market. So when Intel saw that they were losing a good market (specially because of the reputation provided) they started investing immense amounts of money from other markets. So, no they could will not remain behind for a long time.
Our OS who art in CPU, UNIX be thy name. Thy programs run, thy syscalls done, In kernel as it is in user!