well they still make a little but maybe coins will trend up closer to 175 or 190. I still think the best advertisment for amd is buy bitcoins and drive up the price. Thus getting more people to buy the cards like the hd7790.
If I went to MtGox with a 10 million dollars to spend bitcoins would jump up in price.
Todays volume was 49000. So round to 50000.
buy coins in bulk the price goes up.
50000 shares at 200 dollars is 10 million bucks.
just buy shares fast the price will go up and people will buy cards.
Buying coins would be legal for AMD buying coins in bulk would drive the price up.
A lot of card buyers are like myself ; miners. I can hope for AMD to do this.
One needs to understand most of the increased hash power is overpriced asics coming to market from asic miner. Avalon still ships slowly and BFL makes snails look quick.
Asic miner sells hash power at 2x the cost of a hd7790 card. (if you have an empty slot) So cards still get sold.. I now have 9 hd7790's and they have done well. I do feel that coins will spike in price again. If not I did okay since last August. But A nice price spike to 200 would be a good boost for me.
AMD buying Bitcoins at this point would be foolish.
If AMD was interested in pulling the maneuver you detail, they should buy Litecoins.