[El_Phil]

Well Intel did offer big carrots to sell processors, Pentium onwards as I remember. It also carried a big stick if you stocked any of that 'AMD rubbish'. So for many years there were many Intel only OEMs, now only Dell remain (although hidden deep in the depths of their website, behind even their Linux machines you will find AMD processors. Not whole machines of course, that would be silly!)

So they did limit competition with AMD and were anti-competitive. It limited consumer choice certainly, if it raised prices is a different question. Given Intel always were (and still are) more pricey than AMD it will be tricky. You go into a shop were there's only Intel machines, if there was an AMD machine it would be cheaper so you buy a cheaper machine. So you could say its increased prices. However is the Intel machine more expensive just because there's no competition? That's the question.