content: The CPU market use to have varying firms but unfortunately due to the business practices of Intel, the upper management ensured that Intel would become a monopoly within CPU industry. In basic terms, whilst the firm was engaged in anti-competitive behavior such as forcing hardware manufacturers and Windows software to use Intel, every illegitimate avenue taken created an environment whereby IBM and AMD were not receiving any money and in turn could not allocate any of the potential into research and development. In other words they were commercially starved to death. Hence Intel was able to generate huge profit margins and continue in future projects at the expense of many of their competitors. The last real competitor was IBM with their Xenon processor for the iBook and as late as the XBOX 360. This news came out as a huge surprise, wish them luck