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According to the following site: TechCrunch Link Cisco Systems purchased a chipset company called Leaba. This could pave the way for Cisco to make thier own chipsets for thier networking hardware! This would be great, as they can fine tune them more for networking, A very bold and sorta needed move, as networking is taking more processing power, and licensing costs can be eliminated. However this would be a HUGE blow to the companies they contract with such as Broadcom, Qualcomm-Atheros, Marvell, Freescale, etc... Cisco has used these companies in thier product ranges and this could be a huge blow to them, as they would not get chip orders if this flows the way I think it might. We shall watch this unfold and see... This could be better optimized network hardware, or a major problem for the chip manufacturers mentioned

This site has reported this: what about apple and linux now? driver support could be bad now!! this is a scary prediction.... we now have microsoft+nvidia we now have apple+intel we now have linux/droid+AMD a tri-opoly.... intel reads this and announces that they will step up GPU efforts and have stronger alliance with apple amd reads this and works better with linux as a response and helps fuel development allies with google. The thing is this could also create higher prices for the consumers, due to the pressures nvidia has with microsoft. Linux driver development with nvidia will be shafted as a result and AMD might take advantage of that and help them. intel will work stronger on thier GPU developments and create discreet GPUs that will be more powerful then thier current GMA series.  They might have a stronger alliance with apple as a result and apple will gain more ground marketshare