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Andry Grove was great, but Intel really was the epitome of "competition is for losers" In the early days all their products were explicitly designed to only wo

Andry Grove was great, but Intel really was the epitome of "competition is for losers" In the early days all their products were explicitly designed to only work with each other to create a hardware walled garden.

narism 3mo ago
Compared to Apple/DEC/Sun/SGI, the Intel ecosystem was remarkably open.
- Danox 3mo ago
  Open to Microsoft…
  - narism 3mo ago
    That’s an argument against Microsoft, not Intel. Intel’s main anti-competitive sin was against rival CPU/chipset/graphics manufacturers.
    - LarsDu88 3mo ago
      They commoditized their compliment, but made sure their chips only worked with their accessory products, particularly in the 70s
fvwqcecvq 3mo ago
I think it's fair to say absorbing functions onto the CPU die, reducing the part count of motherboards, was a natural evolution of the PC and made sense. So I don't really fault Intel for that. But they definitely had other tricks up their sleeve... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Micro_Devices,_Inc._v._Intel_Corp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Micro_Devices,_Inc._v....