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When Moore made his famous observation, there were many competitors in the chipmaking industry. Do you have a single sign from that era of anti-competitive beha
by oldmanjay 10y ago
When Moore made his famous observation, there were many competitors in the chipmaking industry. Do you have a single sign from that era of anti-competitive behavior?
- rocqua 10y agoNot to support OP's point, but there is a decent example. Intel, for a while, kept AMD in the game and licensed them x86 simply to avoid anti-trust laws (basically, Microsoft just got shafted so they wanted to be able to point to AMD and say "we have competition"). IIRC they later on actually invested in AMD to keep them solvent for the same reasons.
- xyzzy123 10y agoIts not just anti trust. .mil is a lot happier if there are multiple sources for chips.
- huxley 10y agoNot quite what happened, Intel got stuck itself in several anti-trust quagmires because of their attempts to rescind the x86 license that IBM forced Intel to give to AMD when the 8088 was selected for the original IBM PC. Intel did everything it could to avoid keeping AMD in the game, including paying Dell off to not use AMD chips. I don't recall ever hearing about Intel investing in AMD, maybe you're thinking of the $1.25 billion settlement Intel had to pay AMD for various lawsuits Intel was in danger of losing and potentially having to pay triple damages.
- rocqua 10y agoThanks for the correction :)
- Zenst 10y agoThe Microsoft aspect you mention I feel you may be confusing with the time in the 90's iirc that Microsoft invested into Apple to prop up competition. AMD is not competition to Microsoft or ever has been.