>They've been one of the largest and most successful chip manufacturers for decades, because their products provided real utility at affordable consumer prices.

>They've been one of the largest and most successful chip manufacturers for decades, because their products provided real utility at affordable consumer prices... Do not forget all of the anti-competitive AMD nonsense over the years. Sabotaging AMD performance on benchmarking is my stand-out, but there were also the payouts to Dell and others to purchase exclusively Intel chips.