&gt;<i>Probably because in every other industry this would have been seen as anti-competitive behavior.</i><p>Not really, since nobody prevented any company from coming up with even faster speeds &#x2F; bigger transistor counts.<p>The whole coordination was to push the limits.<p>Not sure which industry would consider ... exponential improvements as &quot;anti-competitive&quot;. More likely they would kill to be able to have them too.