Sorry for my delayed response. I haven't read those links yet (I am planning to, but don't want to forget to comment) but... if AMD lost out because Intel had d

Sorry for my delayed response. I haven't read those links yet (I am planning to, but don't want to forget to comment) but... if AMD lost out because Intel had deals with the OEMs, AMD should have made those kind of deals, even if they had to pay a pretty penny, or AMD should have created it's own end-to-end PC business, or AMD should have purchased an OEM, or whatever. It's just business strategy. At the end of the day, if AMD could not make it happen, they should have let their IP be acquired by someone else and let someone else have a go at it. Or they should have diversified their business (which I guess they did do, successfully) and then waited for a better opportunity to go after the CPU market later. Ultimately, it's barbaric for the government to use guns to stop Intel from making its own business decisions in the market, which is what people are directly advocating whenever they accuse Intel of being "anti-competitive" or a monopoly.