What's in it for Intel?

What's in it for Intel?

Posted Dec 25, 2008 2:16 UTC (Thu) by dark (subscriber, #8483)
In reply to: What's in it for Intel? by sbishop
Parent article: Alan Cox is moving on from Red Hat

Intel is not the only maker of chips to run Linux on! By making sure that Linux can use every feature of their chipsets, and squeezes every bit of speed out of their processors, Intel can become the platform of choice for Linux systems. That way they can take market share from AMD and Via. For Linux users, there's little difference between "Linux runs faster on Intel chips" and "Intel chips are faster".

In addition, there's the effect of software being complementary to hardware. People buy software and hardware together. If Intel can bring the price of software down, then there's more money for the hardware. This will expand their market.

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