alt Hacker NewsThe lack of licensing to other companies was clearly a POWERFUL incentive.
Imagine how much money they could make if that pesky AMD went away.
The lack of licensing to other companies was clearly a POWERFUL incentive.
Imagine how much money they could make if that pesky AMD went away.
IIRC it was major part of intel's roadmap to establish it so that "future" of PC cpus would be locked down to Intel/HP partnership.
And back then VIA was still noticeable competitor!