Unfortunately for AMD investors, the DOJ isn't out to punish success. Intel does not sell its products below cost, far from it. They are up against AMD, NSM, IDT, Motorola, Samsung, TSG and other industrial giants. AFA broadening its market, are you suggesting the government define what chips they can and cannot make? The fact is, the PC is an open architecture and Intel has not been responsible in any way shape or form for the failure of TI, IBM, AMD or anybody else in this space.
For all intents and purposes, the only practical OS of choice for software developers is Windows. It's as if MSFT is the only practical CPU and they control the surrounding architecture. They also compete in the peripheral market by way of applications. So they control the CPU, the architecture, and they make all of the external products as well. That has to change for several reasons, not the least of which is their architecture is a brittle, archaic, badly designed, poorly implemented and bloated morass. |
