Quote Originally Posted by dexman View Post
You mean they would have made less than now?

Just because there is no competition doesn´t mean people will stop buying products they need, although prices being ridicilous. just look at microsoft.


i´d say prices would be tremenedously higher.

neither do i. i said development would slow down considerably.

right, chances for huge savings in R&D since they know nobody can threaten them any time soon.


it would mean no competition for some years to say at least. it doesn´t take a day to enter this kind of market.
I really dont see your points. Because you essentially try and paint AMD and Intel as the only MPU designers and suppliers in the world.

If development slows down, so will the reason to buy a new CPU. Would you buy a new CPU that was 10-20% faster 2 years later?

R&D wont lose much, maybe go from 6 to 5billion$. But if you want to compare with MS, Vista costed what, 40-50billion$? Hardly money saved on R&D so to say.

And even MS have to keep pace up and develop alot of new products and things.

Roughly, I would say the ticktock might change to 3 years vs 2 now. And the price may go up 20%. But besides that I dont see anything. If you want to compare with MS, then MS should take 1000$ for Vista Ultimate now with an annual fee of 100$ and only release 1 windows version each 10 years and use a few billion$ on it. Yet its far from the reality.

On the other hand I can see a longterm benefit of a temporary monopol in the death of x86 aswell as a few other things. And a greater push for more drastic tech changes for the better.

But again, after those changes we want competition again.