Re:Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger
by robocat on Monday December 02, 2024 @06:23PM
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> x86 monopoly
Wintel was a duopoly which had some power: Intel x86 has less dominance now partly because Windows has less dominance.
There are some wonderful papers on how game theory and monopoly plays out between Windows and Intel; and there's a great paper with analysis of why AMD struggled against the economic forces and why Microsoft preferred to team up with a dominant CPU manufacturer.
Wintel was a duopoly which had some power: Intel x86 has less dominance now partly because Windows has less dominance.
There are some wonderful papers on how game theory and monopoly plays out between Windows and Intel; and there's a great paper with analysis of why AMD struggled against the economic forces and why Microsoft preferred to team up with a dominant CPU manufacturer.