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AMD Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Intel

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the let-the-games-begin dept.

jonathan_ingram writes "As reported on GrokLaw, AMD has just filed an antitrust lawsuit against Intel. AMD states in its press release that the complaint details "... how Intel has unlawfully maintained its monopoly in the x86 microprocessor market by engaging in worldwide coercion of customers from dealing with AMD. It identifies 38 companies that have been victims of coercion by Intel - including large scale computer-makers, small system-builders, wholesale distributors, and retailers, through seven types of illegality across three continents.""

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  1. I'm sure they'll be very upset... by Gordonjcp · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ... to lose your custom, which must amount to what, 3, maybe 4 processors a year, so you and your kiddie mates can play games on your l33t overclocked PCs.

  2. Re:About time... by doubledoh · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Sorry, but one of the reasons Apple chose Intel was for their mobile laptop chips. Intel's Pentium M is a great processor, and by far much better than the mobile offerings from AMD. Apple itself has stated that they were worried about the future of their laptops because of IBM's lackluster interest in devoting many resources to mobile chips for their powerbooks.

    Regarding AMD's lawsuit, this has really soured my perception of AMD. Companies that start lawsuits instead of competing in the marketplace lose my respect very quickly.

    I find it amazing that as soon as a company files a lawsuit against another company claiming unfair competition, everyone immediately and blindly begins backing the plaintiff without considering the fact that the government really should have no place in telling companies or consumers how to run their businesses or which products they are allowed to manufacture or which businesses they are allowed to form partnerships with. If you don't like the deals businesses make with each other, then don't buy their products, period. You can even go as far as creating big groups to boycott their products and use the power of persuasion to change their "evil" ways. But please leave the goddamn government and the courts (and my tax money) out of it.

    These lawsuits are spiraling out of control and they destroy huge amounts of investment money and invester confidence, yet the uneducated masses think they are a good thing. I say, grow up and learn how to compete in the free market like an free-thinking adult. If you can't stand the heat of competition, you don't deserve to compete, and you certainly shouldn't be allowed to sue another competitor out of the race because they are ahead of you.

    Liberty just doesn't seem to exist in the world anymore, and the saddest part is that most people don't think about it or seem to care.

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    I think, therefore I doh.
  3. Re:About time... by Fareq · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm not that prolific of a system builder myself, but I can say this:

    The 7 Intel CPU / Mobo with Intel chipset computers I've built have all been fabulous.

    The 1 Intel CPU / Mobo with Via chipset computer I built was a bit unreliable.

    The 4 AMD CPU computers I've built (1x VIA, 1x ALI, 1xSiS, 1xAMD chipset) were all complete and utter crap. Extremely unreliable, most hardware didn't work. In one case went through 9 video cards before I found one that worked [that was the ALI], and 3 sound cards [a VIA] before I found one that worked.

    Now, to be fair, 3 of the 4 AMD-based computers were long ago... 2 of them were K6 chips. But the latest was a dual Athlon MP 1900+ on an AMD chipset. The machine had a number of really bizarre hardware problems... couldn't boot if all 3 HDs were connected, or black-screen-only on boot if I used the 3rd PCI slot, or ...

    So, I tried. Intel is simply more reliable. So I buy Intel.

    Simple.