About intel monopoly

[nikitaa]

who was your competitor n in present also

 

[alyoshka]

Oh... when they started off, they had quit a bit of competition from IBM,Cyrix etc etc... they weren't born number ones you know....

 

[gamerk316]

How is Intel a monopoly? Especially since ARM outsells X86...

Point being, there are enough viable CPU architectures so that Intel is not a monopoly. Problem is, since the Desktop is dominated by Windows, and Windows is only supporting X86, Intel, who created/owns the X86 architecture, is dominant.

 

[mathew7]

Oh... when they started off, they had quit a bit of competition from IBM,Cyrix etc etc... they weren't born number ones you know....

Actually it's IBM who wanted CPUs, Intel offered them, but IBM refused to buy them "from a monopoly". So Intel contracted (or should I say offered a licence to) AMD who started making copies. Later AMD started making clones, because Intel kept delaying (according to lawsuits) the new designs to have an edge with new models. After that Cyrix also joined the battle (which was aquired by VIA).

So while Intel indeed has (and always had) a larger market share, they technicaly never were a monopoly.