Great for the duopoly.
Maybe not so great for companies getting locked out of the market (like Nvidia).
Maybe not so great for companies getting locked out of the market (like Nvidia).
Good news for AMD stockholders(stock is already up 20%+).
Why else would Intel give up so quickly and completely? Clearly they're getting something out of this that's worth at least 1.2B to them.
I know that the EU's fines on Microsoft have certainly set them straight; within a few weeks of the levying of billions in penalties, Microsoft had a sudden change of heart on the default browsing modes in IE8 and released thousands of pages in additional format specifications, etc.