War and Peace: HP Drops Bomb; Intel and AMD Call Truce
We seem to be surrounded by conflict; sometimes it seems peace is harder to make than war. There were two big events in tech last week: HP picked up 3Com, the company that first dominated the network space, as a major shot across Cisco’s bow. Also the major legal battle of the decade, between AMD and Intel, came to an end. This market is defined by battles and partnerships, and it was the initial partnership between Intel and AMD that helped launch the PC. Before that, there was IBM. HP seems hell bent to become the next giant, and the market may just let it.
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