I'm not sure I understand the position being put forth by a number of people here, which I'll paraphrase as: "Corporations will have to charge more/cut back in order to afford this tax." But this is a tax on corporate profits, not on overall revenue. This would predominately affect things like dividend distributions, as opposed to product costs. Whether this is a good or a bad thing is separate, but it seems like we shouldn't be confusing the issues.

This isn't necessarily valid logic; the short-term rational decision is to choose the provider that gives you the best performance for your money; long term, let's say if AMD dries up and Intel becomes overwhelmingly dominate again, you'll have to pay much more in the long term.

Certainly, it's an advantageous position for AMD at the moment but I'm certain that they would vastly prefer to sell chips as a result of having superior performance then as a result of this kind of thinking :)