Quote Originally Posted by Shintai View Post
I wouldnt agree with that. Intel wouldn´t make much money that way.
You mean they would have made less than now?
And they need something to keep all their factories busy.
Just because there is no competition doesn´t mean people will stop buying products they need, although prices being ridicilous. just look at microsoft.

Prices might be abit higher and such.
i´d say prices would be tremenedously higher.
But I dont see development stopping.
neither do i. i said development would slow down considerably.
on the other hand it would also open up options for the bigger changes that competition wont allow.
right, chances for huge savings in R&D since they know nobody can threaten them any time soon.

And just because AMD could die, doesn´t mean its all over in competition. If it sucked hard enough everyone could just make an Apple move and change CPU arch. Specially since x86 aint pretty in any way.
it would mean no competition for some years to say at least. it doesn´t take a day to enter this kind of market.