>80s NEC, AMD, Intel >90s Cyrix, Centaur, Rise, Nexgen,

Intel killed them all and the market kept AMD alive so there wouldn't be a monopoly

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>>58034488
Sad!

>>58034488
Was amd the right choice to keep alive?

Was there any other better choice?

>>58034437
Consolidation is a hell of a drug.
As a company acquires more IP, becomes more valuable, they are harder to compete against. If you're a smaller firm the only option you have is to dwindle into nonexistence, or to get bought out, and aid in growing one of the new forming giants.
Barriers to entry are so high that no new competition can emerge, and patent law ensures it won't ever change.

>>58034603
AMD was a habitually mismanaged company. I'm sure intel higher ups thought they'd have no problem running circles around them with all their OEM schemes. They held enough IP that they couldn't be gotten rid of entirely. Intel would probably love to be the only vendor of any processors on the entire planet, but they are still ultimately restrained by the same patent laws that control all tech firms.
Its not that intel intentionally kept AMD alive, its that they couldn't fully kill them off.

VIA never had much prospects, and they knew it themselves, so they focused on a tiny portion of embedded devices, just low enough gross revenue for intel not to care. AMD was really only the real competition intel faced from the 2000s onward. You could argue that IBM was as well, but the signs were clear that X86 was going to become dominant.

>>58034667
*cough*ARM*cough*

>>58034950
Pull the cock out of your throat.
ARM designs ISA/implementations then licenses them out to 3rd parties. They are not selling and manufacturing complete CPUs. As a company they're not in the same line of business as AMD and intel. If you're trying to say that high perf ARM arch competes with X86, which it doesn't, you're even further off base since ARM arch trying to gain traction in enterprise is a new thing. The workloads that these parts target are a niche. They're even going toe to toe.
X86 is 80% of the enterprise market. Sparc64, POWER, ARM, and various others are all competing for 20%.

>>58035082
Not him

But I really want to see how an a73 core does against a skylake core-m

Only AMD left. cmon intel do your job already!

>>58034667
>Intel would probably love to be the only vendor of any processors on the entire planet, but they are still ultimately restrained by the same patent laws that control all tech firms.

Had an EE prof who worked at IBM for a long time and he said almost the exact same thing.

"Intel's mission has always been to have every single processor cycle in the world run on Intel hardware."