Gutless PC vendors terrified by nightmare AMD Intel clash
 

It's just that Intel is built like a machine, works like a machine, and can often act as if it is a terminator. On that mechanism is based its vast profits and its success, fuelled by the need to relentlessly drive chip processes and profits forward so it can build the $3 billion fabs it needs to, to stay ahead.........

By a steady process of attrition, Intel has gradually worn down its semiconductor opposition with only AMD and Via now making X86 microprocessors and unable to really break big time into a market dominated by Chipzilla.........

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Fourteen of the companies have already responded and nine have said they will work with AMD. Best Buy agreed to comply without limitations. Toshiba acknowledged receipt and refused to negotiate.

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