A few words on licensing technologies of Intel. There are some people out there who wonder why Intel doesn't refuse to extend licenses for its products to get rid of its importunate competitor. First, FTC will never let it because of the antimonopoly law (Intel can't help extending its licenses as the state obliges to do it); moreover, there is such a concept as a strategic product. Intel will have to produce Alpha for God knows how long, irregardless of whether it likes it or not, because the American military need it. And Intel will give licenses for x86 to AMD, because the Tomohavks the USA used to fire at Serbia and Afghanistan were based on the embedded 80386 processors from AMD, and the military want that the strategic components be produced by several companies, just to feel confident. The Shuttles which stand idle at the moment (not because of AMD) contain quite a lot of its chips.