While serving on one of the juries in the great Intel vs AMD trials in the mid ‘90s, I learned something: Neither side would do as well if the other went away.

This is not some marketing/theoretical mambo-jumbo but based on an important fact: Sensitive/critical government contracts (not just US) often require a Second Source. If one has problems of any kind, another supplier must exist. Intel’s is AMD and vise versa. Many of their product lines are not just similar — they must be identical.

Fun fact?


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