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It's called First Mover advantage, monopolistic practices, lock-in, monopolistic profits, and massive investment into custom design on shrinking processes. The
by nickpsecurity 9y ago
It's called First Mover advantage, monopolistic practices, lock-in, monopolistic profits, and massive investment into custom design on shrinking processes. The ISA itself isn't special. After the marketing win, they basically sustained it with volume and monopoly laws. That their big competition also played it foolish a bit did help.
- emodendroket 9y agoAlmost none of the computer standards people actually use are ideal, so that hardly makes x86 unique.
- nickpsecurity 9y agoThe article is about x86. That's why Im focusing on it. What is somewhat unique is how hard x86 is to run at speeds and costs markets prefer. POWER is only other in same category but x86 dominates desktops with servers easier to change over. Intel effectively has one competitor in that space that's barely making money or losing it depending on the year.