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> An x86 monopoly in the late 80s was a thing, but not now

And then in the 2000s after AMD64 pretty much destroyed all competing architectures and then in the 2010s Intel itself effectively was almost a monopoly (outside of mobile) with AMD being on the verge of bankruptcy.



Itanium’s hype killed the competing architectures. AMD64 then took over since it was cost effective and fast.




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