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To: AK2004 who wrote (65848)	12/17/2001 3:29:08 PM
From: fyodor_	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Albert, controlling standards vs monopoly I think that it is exactly what it means. A monopoly means that there is no viable alternative. There is a viable alternative to Intel. However, with a dominant market position, you can often impose standards or at least control the direction of evolution. Intel's management wouldn't be doing their jobs if they didn't try to impose and control standards. Going off on a tangent here&#133 Intel actually gambled quite a bit, IMHO, by cutting AMD off from the infrastructure (post-Socket7) - and it seems their gamble may well fail. While it does give them an advantage in some respects, they do seem to have lost quite a bit of their ability to control standards. Certainly, the gamble didn't pay off as (much as) Intel had hoped. -fyo