I still think the Radeon portfolio would have been quite valuable for someone like Apple or Samsung. Especially Apple as they use Radeon products. I'm sure they'd love to bring it in house. I could imagine Apple purchasing AMD above market value in Feb 2016. It would have been trivial for them to do with their pile of cash in order to secure that IP. For example, in 2015 Apple acquired Beats headphones for their streaming platform and licenses with record companies. So it is plausible they'd acquire AMD/Radeon to prevent someone else like Samsung from taking their gpu architecture of choice.
Also AMD holds the IP for x64. Not Intel. Intel's attempt was itanium x64 and that's dead. If x86 agreement goes away, so does amd64 for Intel. I wonder if Intel had a contingency plan for that of amd did actually go under?
Radeon was all they had, after debt probably zero gain for the investor. The x86/x64 cross-licensing agreement does NOT allow transfer in an acquisition. It is all together - x86/x64 with Intel. Read the link in my last post. It simply DIES. Nothing to be gained. That is how Intel and AMD protect the x86/64 IP TOGETHER.
You need to understand Cross-Licensing, It is astounding how many people invest in AMD and cheer on "Acquisition" of AMD by another company and don't understand the x86/64 license implications. It is good you understand the Monopoly side. Obviously that counts Nvidia out as a purchaser of the RTG Group.