No. If the market for a less expensive good is there, it will happen with or without a company. Intel's fortunate that they can make a product for the segment a

No. If the market for a less expensive good is there, it will happen with or without a company. Intel's fortunate that they can make a product for the segment and dominate that segment, even if it means a smaller overall market for the rest of their products. Compare and contrast Microsoft's position in the netbook market: their entries into this segment to date have fought the inevitable (such as a 1g cap on RAM). Other similar efforts they've made, such as Windows Starter Edition have an arbitrary fixed cap on concurrent running applications. There's presumably no elegant way for them to handle this wave, and I believe _they_ are in trouble (to the extent it matters) because of it.