Monopolistic Exclusion and Nazism

Another report alleges that Intel excluded AMD from the PC market in Germany. German retailer Metro tells its suppliers that it has an agreement with Intel which bars them from purchasing products containing AMD CPUs.

I think this kind of exclusionary acts are worse than price fixing. Exclusion completely denies competors' access to market. In the movie "The Pianist", the Nazis denied some people's access to food regardless of what they were willing to pay. It's a very similar situation here.

There are three main features of Nazism: (1) A sense of absolute superiority and strong hatred and contempt towards competition (2) A urge to exterminate the competition regardless of the cost (3) A methodical and even scientific plan to carry out the extermination.

One can compare monopolistic exclusion to Nazism. Hitler had a philosophy of racial exclusion and Aryan monopoly of racial existence. Monopolists have similar doctrine in the market. Hitler wanted to wipe out competing races by violence. Monopolists don't want fair competition, they only want monopolisitc control. Intel execs' pathetic behaviour* and their fixation on excluding AMD may be traced back to their deep rooted hatred towards competition.

Reading the book "Inside Intel" by Tim Jackson, you know that Intel has a ruthless and often unethical way of doing things, internally and externally. Intel doesn't look like an American company in many ways. Intel's corporate culture was cultivated by Andy Grove, a survivor of Nazi and Soviet oppression. During his times, even high level Intel execs are routingly shouted at and chided in meetings and punished by being put into CAP ("corrective action program"). Intel had a system to constantly weed out the least productive 10% of its work force, which led to the creation of the FACE Intel organization.

Today's Intel is the same old Intel. Its execs are still following the old way of doing business.
Intel is not expanding its horizons into other areas, it is not focusing on growing revenue and profit. Instead, Intel is solely working on gaining CPU market share, or reducing competitor's market share, even though Intel already has 75% of the market. They are again trying to restrict free trade and commerce and limit people's freedom to choose by exercising their monopolistic powers.

There is a fundamental difference between expansion and exclusion. AMD expands the computing ecosystem through efforts such as pervasive 64 bit computing, x86 everywhere, 50x15, multicore scalable systems, HyperTransport Consortium, Torrenza, GreenGrid, AMD Live!... Intel always tries to exclude competition through programs such as Intel Inside(stop buying AMD and get $$$), Centrino (Intel CPU+Intel chipset+Intel Wi-Fi), VIIV(Intel CPU+Intel chipset+Intel LAN card)...It's no surprise that AMD is growing and Intel is shrinking.

Intel execs openly said they are angry. I think they are not just angry, they are hateful. Such attitude has even poisoned the Intel user community, where fanboism often turns into fundamentalism.

The Third Reich's collapse was swift.

* Henri Richard: "I think that Intel executives refusing to attend a meeting, for example, if AMD is on the menu, or on stage, is just simply pathetic, but it happens time and time again. I don’t think that a company that’s worth US$120 billion or more, that’s one of the top Fortune 500 companies, should ever condone that kind of behavior, and I don’t understand why Intel is not welcoming free and open competition, especially from a much smaller competitor."