I love this even though I am no fan of Intel. But as a consumer, I want Intel to survive, because without such competition it is we who are ultimately screwed.

I love this even though I am no fan of Intel. But as a consumer, I want Intel to survive, because without such competition it is we who are ultimately screwed. I also feel safer with Intel hardware than Apple's, because Apple is a system integrator who makes their own hardware and software. And thus they don't care beyond that - and so you have soldered hardwares (with no documentation), limited to no software comptability (for other OSes), face varying levels of difficulty to make anything work outside their ecosystem etc. ... it's fine for certain people. But limits our computing freedom. If it were not for Intel or AMD, we would have a lot of silo-ed and incompatible systems, just like Google, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook have divided up the internet. Perhaps this is already happening with our personal computing devices slowly, and we haven't fully grasped it yet ...