Fancy name? It's still a cartel.
It's a self-protective cartel designed to marginalise ARM, the former British chip company now owned by yet another US combine.
The two companies are integrating R&D producing common features such as "Advanced Matrix Extension (ACE), AVX10, Flexible Return and Event Delivery (FRED), and ChkTag." And no, I have no idea what they are and I don't care.
What I do care about is that the two dominant chip companies are specifically conspiring, albeit at least partly in public, to lock in computer users as they have, with the help of Microsoft, for the best part of half-a-century.
Think about the chips they have seen off.... IBM's PC chip that was OS/2 optimimised (and didn't have the y2k risk of that was the driver to "upgrade" Intel to the next generation), the Motorola 36000 - true multitasking in the mid 1980s - I had one in my server in the office and other in my son's Commodore Amiga). American MegaTrends has been shoved off so far to the side that the only one I've seen for ages is in the microPC I have for travel instead of a laptop).
Americans call it AntiTrust and it's been illegal since the late 19th Century when cartels dominated the railways and the stock markets.
Two questions, then:
1.why is the US government (or the EU or the UK or AUS) not challenging this cartel?
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