| Kasz216 said: Although... I'm not sure if i'd consider that illegal. "Use our product only and we'll give you a discount." more or less.... |
It is when you have 80% of the market and the buyers can't say no (because they'd lose heavily in PC sales to the people who said yes; AMD didn't have the fab capacity to fully supply any dissenting OEMs).
Soleron said:
It is when you have 80% of the market and the buyers can't say no (because they'd lose heavily in PC sales to the people who said yes; AMD didn't have the fab capacity to fully supply any dissenting OEMs). |
Not only that, but Intel was basically paying these companies to force their competition out of the market. Anti-competitive behavior like this is illegal because it leads to monopolies and monopolies lead to the consumer losing. Hell, it's Intel's virtual monopoly that allowed AMD to come out with cheaper and better chips for as long as they did. They didn't feel the need to compete, so they simply sat back and charged more for inferior products until actual competition reared its head. We'd probably just now be getting quad cores if Intel didn't have to make up for all that lost ground, and it'd be us that would lose out because of it.
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