After all the technical details, I'm more and more convinced that Intel very badly wanted to shake off AMD, so they grasped at a too-thin excuse to do so; their

After all the technical details, I'm more and more convinced that Intel very badly wanted to shake off AMD, so they grasped at a too-thin excuse to do so; their eye was really on how much more coin they could shake out of everyone's pockets once they'd established a true monopoly just at the historical moment when monopoly law was being most thoroughly ignored.