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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. This is fun by KrisCowboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    We got 64-bit processors, dual-core processors and dual-core dual processors. Now we got a legal fight. This sure is fun. Wait a second, either one of them planning to lower the prices? I'm all for the spoils :-)

  2. Re:Seriously.... by Lord+Pillage · · Score: 5, Funny
    My oxymoron detector just went through the roof.

    What? A well known secret you say?

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  3. Re:Seriously.... by bigjocker · · Score: 4, Funny

    He said a well known serect, which is a perfectly valid pertrefection to the well known affirmatization.

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  4. Re:Marketing Strategy by gwayne · · Score: 3, Funny
    Actually, it's more like:
    1. Coerce customers and suppliers
    2. Drive all competitors under
    3. Inflate prices due to monopoly power
    4. Create vast hoardes of minimum-wage slaves
    5. ???
    6. Profit
    7. Take over planet

    Wow, I just described Wal-Mart.
  5. StrongARM tactics? by tepples · · Score: 4, Funny

    except, possibly, strongarm tactics by Intel.

    StrongARM tactics? Don't you mean "XScale tactics" nowadays?

  6. Re:Could the be the way for Dell to finally ship A by ImaLamer · · Score: 3, Funny

    funny, sounds like the same problem they had with Microsoft...

    poor Dell, getting locked into products because of the tactics their "friends" use...

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  7. It's True by airship · · Score: 3, Funny

    I was just THINKING about building a boxen with an AMD processor in it, and the doorbell rang. It was three guys in black suits and dark sunglasses. They told me they were from Intel, and they tied me up, beat me with a rubber hose, ate all my pretzels, drank all my beer, and shot my dog. They said they'd kill me if I didn't buy Intel. Believe me, after that, I built my boxen using an Intel processor! And I started wearing a tinfoil hat, too.

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