This market where they can build chips for $50 and sell them for $1000 only exists because there is a (near) duopoly on x86 (afaik mostly due to patents). If t

This market where they can build chips for $50 and sell them for $1000 only exists because there is a (near) duopoly on x86 (afaik mostly due to patents). If the HT chip costs almost the same as the non HT chip then maybe they should just be selling HT chips for $500 instead, that would probably be what would happen if there was actually competition in the x86 market.