About two years ago I had a private conversation with an Intel employee. We touched upon the competition and then moved on to Intel's near monopoly of the desktop market. Back then there was this notion that Intel just barely had escaped a Microsoft-like case for its dominating position in the computer industry.

Of course my conversation partner disagreed, but his reasoning was stunning.

He didn't deny the claim, but instead pointed out that Intel for years has had very strict policies about data retention and clean up. The point being: anyone filing a claim against Intel would have a hard time collecting evidence because the company had been much more careful than Microsoft had been.

He didn't mean to imply any knowledge of illegal actions, but if there were any, Intel made sure they would be hard to track.

Photo credit: Charles Toepfer

Tags: Intel; AMD

29 Jun 2005