Intel twists arm, Dell abandons 12-inch netbooks?

According to this post at Tech Crunch, Dell's decision to abandon the 12-inch netbooks may be a results of Intel's power-play, squeezing out the Atom out of 12-inch netbooks and wanting to "box" netbooks at 10-inches or less.

This is rumor and speculation of course, but the pricing of Atom processors alone is a very good reason to speculate like this. Is Intel tempting fate and begging for a new round of price-control and monopolistic tendencies?

Well, for one thing, they are lucky AMD is still out there, but at the same time, AMD doesn't have a direct competitor to the Atom. On the other hand, this could be to AMD's benefit, since their idea for a netbook-processor stacks up a tier above the Atom. So perhaps Intel's greed and power-grab may turn out to be an assist to AMD???