[MetalheadGautham]

I don't think IBM will buy AMD. They are not showing intrests in consumer desktops/notebooks. They already sold out their thinkpad range to lenovo. They want to remain "International Business Machines" for ever, not "International Machines". The Servers they sell are good enough IMO.

But if they DO buy AMD, I guess IBM will regret selling thinkpad to lenovo.
And I think Apple, Microsoft and Intel will stand no chance against IBM then. They will just have to bow to the pressure from the CREATORS of the PC with the hyper powerful PowerPC combined with technologies from Phenom, Athlon, Opteron, etc and ATI Cards, as well as from IBM's Linux Distributions, which already create waves in the Mainframe world. If z/OS in Mainframes was great, the new OS they will make for PCs will be even greater.

BUT REMEMBER, THIS IS ALL A RUMOUR. IBM WILL NEVER BUY AMD, AS IT IS OF NO STRATIGICAL ADVANTAGE TO THEM. AT MOST, THEY MAY BUY THE SERVER COMPONENT UNIT OF AMD, BUT DEFINITELY NOT PHENOM AND ATHLON.