The B case examines the shifting dynamics as Intel and Microsoft maintain their ascendancy over the box makers. By the year 2001, Compaq was collapsed as the world's biggest PC manufacturer.
Intel stayed the world's largest chip manufacturer and Microsoft remained a software giant. But a business founded in 1984 by an University of Texas pupil had taken its place as a powerhouse in the "Wintel" value chain. That business was Dell.
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