What is business 4?

There seems to be an inherent resistance within the circle of any industry against monopoly. Take Intel’s short foray into the motherboard market for example. It infuriated all the manufacturers and also gave them a wake up call as to the reality of Intel. If the rival AMD is not kept alive, Intel can and will enter another market with the goal to take over. They can because they control the information on the most relevant information for any motherboard manufacturer: the chipset information.

People are willing to put up with inconvenience of the underdog so as to not give the giant any more fuel to increase its power. Any computer integrator’s fear is that of Intel integrating everything together. Imaging a PC with CPU, RAM, Graphic, sound and motherboard all fitting into a single chip. The trend is certainly pointing into that direction. In the past month, Intel has unvailed its plan on a new type of RAM and on the new possible graphic processing power, there’s only the reviving of Intel’s old motherboard division left to do for Intel to provide the complete solution. Just like Microsoft has slowly done with the general software market.

The rival must be kept alive, just as the spice must be kept flowing.

That aside, one starts to wonder. Why is Intel moving towards being a complete solution? Market share? Profit? Or is it just “the next thing to do” with a corporation that big? Did they foresee the saturation of the CPU market?