I always worry when people listen too much to what people say. I suspect if we loose Sparc & Power, AMD won't be too far behind.

Also x86 architecture is not fit for every purpose under heaven. I'll bet that id Sun & IBM put their minds to it they can scale out their CPU's a lot faster and cheaper that Intel can, I'd also lay odds that Intel would tone down their R&D if they had only AMD for competition., so where as know we are getting faster and better CPUs at a clip, it would go down to walking pace.

Perhaps too many people have forgotten how IBM behaved in the early days, do we really want Intel behaving like that, and if you think they wouldn't you're even more NUTS that the people who buy Sparc servers.

Would you change your Mercedes Benz for a Proton, I know, I wouldn't. (Ok unfair, maybe a Ford then, think Via think Proton)