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When Intel was on top of the world they tried every trick to destroy the competition so that definitely didn't stemmed from the top...

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Andry Grove was great, but Intel really was the epitome of "competition is for losers"

In the early days all their products were explicitly designed to only work with each other to create a hardware walled garden.

Compared to Apple/DEC/Sun/SGI, the Intel ecosystem was remarkably open.

Open to Microsoft…

That’s an argument against Microsoft, not Intel. Intel’s main anti-competitive sin was against rival CPU/chipset/graphics manufacturers.

They commoditized their compliment, but made sure their chips only worked with their accessory products, particularly in the 70s

I think it's fair to say absorbing functions onto the CPU die, reducing the part count of motherboards, was a natural evolution of the PC and made sense. So I don't really fault Intel for that. But they definitely had other tricks up their sleeve...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Micro_Devices,_Inc._v....

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