Well, I dont buy a product to make some kind of moral statement. I buy the best product available for my needs. If you want to somehow twist that into morality, do you think it is the right thing to do to support an inferior product? Reverse evolution I guess, survival of the unfit.
It is nice though that you are so perceptive that you can ascertain the motives of all the millions of people that buy intel. Maybe you should go on the Tonite Show or something, get rich and donate the money to AMD, since they seem incapable of making a significant profit.
1) It's not about morals, it's about getting worse tech in 10 years because you suppirted a trust. Imagine if in the 70's people stayed with ibm because thier system had better performance. The only vote you will ever make that counts is with the dollar.
2) I don't like AMD. I wish there was another option (VIA contracts intel) but lazy and irresponsible consumers and regulators kind of ruined that for me.
Whilst I think your appeals to morality are utterly ludicrous, are there other products I need to be applying the Moralistic Geiger Counter to before I can buy them and sleep well at night?
What if I want a camera, who is the Great Satan amongst Camera makers I need to avoid?
If I want to buy a car, who is the Great Satan amongst Car makers I need to avoid?
If I want to buy an expensive bicycle, who is the Great Satan amongst Bicycle makers I need to avoid?
I would be spending much more money on the above than on a CPU or GPU.
So why is it that only for CPU's and GPU's is there this childish nonsense about "morals" being discussed?
1) I'm not some portlandian crying about free range chicken. Is not about right vs wrong. It is about what will happen if we choose to allow stifling of innovation for medeocre advantage at present.
2) Imagers would be sony, but hikvision just jumped in the charts.
3) Cars have quite a bit of competition. The NHTSA isn't a manufacturer, but they are the ones retarding innovation.
4) I have never bought a bicycle, but this stuff is pretty easy.
It's not that hard to be a responsible consumer, so the only explanation that still holds is frozen's. You just don't care.
There has to be a better reason than that.