I believe right now is the perfect time for AMD to spend some money on TV advertising. Ofcourse we know that they have an amazing GPU and great processors, but the rest of the world is reaaaaallly oblivious. My friend the other day was customizing a computer he wanted to buy (cant remember the site), and he chose an nvidia GTX 275 over a HD 5870 (not cause of the price, but because he thought Nvidia was best no matter what), and an Intel dual core at 2.93 ghz. There were much better options for roughly the same price, but of course, he thought if it wasn't intel, it wasn't good. So I had to have a long talk with him about this .
Anyway, as i was saying, i think AMD could gain a lot of popularity through flashy looking commercials (remember those core dua and core 2 duo ones?), especially vision ones which are very eye pleasing for the average consumer (check the AMD website to see them).