Clearly evidence of the "free market" working on human prosperity. Oh, wait, no it's the opposite. Innovation killed over a monopoly's power. Cool, cool, cool.
This sort of anti-competitive behavior should be illegal. How is it okay to just clog your competitors supply line, when they got the better tech you just can't up?
GF has basically given up on 10nm and smaller nodes.
Maybe not legally, but if their (partial) intention is to retard AMD's design success, it's at least what is considered "a dick move".
Intel is strong-arming AMD on many fronts AFAIK, I sincerely hope they vanish into insignificance for their dick-locomotion nature. And I also hope the EU succeeds at spinning up their own fabs. And that ancaps one day see the light of regulation.
I want fancy tech and scifi and wealth for everyone, and the free-market doesn't deliver. It's all monopolies and patent wars...
> AMD's design success
The market is showing us that the value center isn't design, it's fab. Which AMD gave up on. The lack of competition that's squeezing them is the very pile of dung they created by dropping their foundries.
That's Intel's legacy at work. They got the cash (but nothing else) to do this. So Intel _is playing its market position.
Of course TSMC is the real winner, but in AMD vs Intel, they are just another resource.
You're assuming the legal system is intended to foster competition and prevent the formation of monopolies. That is not the case. The examples of this occurring are exceptions to the rule. And as evidence, you can examine the concentration of wealth, and investment capital in the USA (or other developed capitalist countries).