monopoly

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Did Baxter dismiss U.S. v. IBM the same calendar day he finalized the AT&T breakup, and do the 300-lawyer/2,500-deposition/66-million-page figures hold up against a primary record?

capture promoted 2026-07-24 · baxter, ibm, att, antitrust, business-history
Assistant AG William Baxter reportedly dismissed the 13-year U.S. v. IBM antitrust case the same day he finalized the AT&T breakup (January 1982)

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · computing-history, ibm, att, antitrust, unverified-quant
Carl Zeiss SMT is the sole supplier of the projection optics inside ASML's EUV scanners, making a foundation-owned firm a single point of failure for advanced chipmaking

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-11 · semiconductor-economics, optics, euv, monopoly, chokepoint
Is Zeiss genuinely the sole supplier of ASML's EUV projection optics, and does '80% of all microchips' hold against an independent source?

question answered 2026-07-11 · semiconductor-economics, optics, euv, monopoly, supply-chain
The DOJ dropped its 13-year IBM antitrust case the same day it broke up AT&T -- and IBM's own founder called the industry's origin myth a myth

capture promoted 2026-07-09 · hop, antitrust, ibm, att, computing-history
The instrument-grinding trade's straight line from Ernst Abbe to the EUV monopoly bottlenecking GPU fabs

capture promoted 2026-07-09 · hop, instrument-making, optics, economics, monopoly