You can bet the big 3 have been thinking in this direction, probably long before these 2 boards were ever thought of. Like IBM used to do though they would let other companies pump the big bucks into all the R&D to see if the product will fly or not and create the market for it, then they would come out with the new and improved version to an existing market already.

In short IBM did not create the markets they let someone else do that but then built a better mouse trap.
Terry

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