Chipping At Intel
At least, it does for now. Monopolies, however approximate, after all, are made to be broken. Judging from the buzz around Silicon Valley, lots of people hope Intel’s will be, too, sooner rather than later. For the first time, new competitors are pushing into its markets. The biggest and boldest, like Apple, are going head to head with Intel, backed by radically new technologies. Smaller clone-makers are nipping at its heels, garnering big contracts with some of the industry’s biggest buyers....