Did you read the paper? They cited a case where crimping occurred in printers even though IBM and HP were competing. Also, ARM and AMD are producing chips, ev

Did you read the paper? They cited a case where crimping occurred in printers even though IBM and HP were competing. Also, ARM and AMD are producing chips, even if they don't target the same subset of the market. Regardless, the point is that by crimping Intel may be making themselves and their customers better off. Sure, we could posit that with an even more competitive chip market we'd be even better off, but that doesn't negate the fact that we might be worse off than the status quo if crimping were disallowed given the current competitive landscape.