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by bpye 1554 days ago
I think that only works when there is other capacity available. If Intel was suddenly the only fab available to western companies but they refused to fab AMD chips I suspect that would result in intervention.
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Not so sure. AMD is always free to build a fab to make their own chips. It's perfectly reasonable to refuse to serve a direct competitor...or offer the service at a huge expense that would make it unreasonable for the competitor.
There is extensive legal precedent, and numerous outright laws in many jurisdictions restraining anticompetitive practices such as this.
'AMD is always free to build a fab to make their own chips.'

By that logic there us no limits on a monopoly abusing its power, after all you are always free to create your own water supply company, electric distribution company, etc.