Re: And all the while, Intel makes money on every Athlon that AMD sells
Of course, they could be making a lot more, if they'd kept licensing chipset interfaces to AMD - but they got greedy.
Now they don't get any licensing fees for the sale of AMD bus chipsets and AMD bus motherboards by AMD and its supporters.
And, much, much, much, more important, they've lost control of the platform. If Intel had let AMD license their CPU interface, they'd have been able to stop DDR. Instead, they have to share control of the platform with AMD, letting AMD promote and promulgate standards like DDR and hypertransport.
Once again, shortsighted greed won out at Intel - and look what happened! |
