However, on the point about Intel buying compiler companies as a strategic move against AMD, I agree. Intel hasn't bought Microsoft or Gnu yet, and they are the two biggest generators of compilers for Opteron.
A somewhat circular argument. Intel hasn't bought and closed down the two best compilers for x86-64. Well of course they haven't or they wouldn't be the best, but they bought the Compaq compiler group and one other group whose name slips my mind, both of whom had top class multitarget Fortran compilers.
By the way, you can't 'buy' gcc due to the GPL license which protects it, and even Intel would have trouble buying MS.
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