Just pointing out the obvious. Apple/Microsoft/Intel technologies are huge in the US, but are losing share in places like China, Russia, Cuba, Iran, Vietnam, places where open source and anti-US alternatives are taking root.
IBM is behind most of it, they still have it out for Microsoft and Intel, and Apple has now broke from IBM completely and partnered with Intel. Meanwhile IBM and Sun share Java, partner with Japanese companies and push AMD and Power and Sparc in their systems. All of this is fairly well known, surely you knew.
I Love the AMD chips. With the exception of my Pentium IV IBM T30 laptop (before the sale to china but made in china just the same) all my home (built) systems are AMD Athalons. Great, kick butt processors. I'm currently looking at a dual core AMD 64 X2 3800+ and motherboard selling at Fry's for around $279 to upgrade one of those systems. Thanks for reminding me.