Allen
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Joined: Oct 1999
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Ohio USA
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Chipzilla might have caused slow PC sales at the beginning of the year to boost the price of its Skylake chips later.
A recent study shows that the slump in PC sales in the first half was deliberately made to help Skylake sell better since August..this will mean a low supply of Skylakes in the first half of 2016..
Intel is making piles from this..the suppliers have to buy it at any price. Particularly as Intel's only real x86 market, AMD, is having a bit of a snooze.
..All this gives a warning about what will happen if AMD goes under and Intel takes total control.
From an article regarding recent Intel price manipulation. Its Intel's extensive manipulation of about a decade ago (back when AMD CPU was better than Intel CPU) that deliberately put AMD in a financial bind in the first place (proven in court, Intel paid over $1 Billion settlement -- but it did not cover AMD losses). Thus AMD R&D languished for lack of funds. This kind of behavior is why I am not an Intel fan -- even though their product is a good one.
Anyhow: Honest competition is good Price fixing is bad
Price fixing is bad 
