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AMD Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Intel
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.""
>>That settles it. No more business from myself or
>>my company for AMD. Intel doesn't have a monopoly,
>>at least with PC chips. AMD is simply using this
>>as a business tactic. I think that this is
>>disgusting and abhorrent. AMD has permamently lost
>>our business.
Agreed, it's about choice and I've always had it, I'm tired of companies suing each other over little things with little to no proof. Intel is big, but they aren't Microsoft and there are competitors. AMD has done a good job but if they're going to take the legal route franky I'm not interested in any of their products as the Intel versions will work fine for me.
I'm cancelling my new shipment of new AMD machines as soon as I get to the office this morning.
what business can a pet store provide AMD. couple of processors every 5 yrs ??
monopolistic practices
That's great. The thing is that I don't see "monopolistic practices" as bad. It's a bad law.
What I'm trying to figure out is when the official Slashdot culture swung to support wholeheartedly the US Gov't and the Attorney General? Slashdotters, I thought, were anti-arbitrary laws, and this kind of big business monopoly stuff is about as arbitrary and forced as one can get.
I don't respond to AC's.
... becasue Dell has chosen to go with the better chip manufacture, Intel.
If I moved as many boxes as Dell, I would only go with on chip.
The expenses involved with tech support for another chip would be huge. The expense for maintaining another set of inventory would be huge.
You would say good buy to the 299.00 computer.
Of course, in the last 4 years Slashdots* posters seem to have allowed there anti-big corporate views to cloud any real thinking ability.
Because AMD is viewed as the underdog, then they can do no wrong.
*I know slashdot is not group think, but I am talking about most posts I see.
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for rejecting my submission about this guys! :) AMDZone doesn't cover this kind of stuff well anyway.
ignorance is bliss. googlefiberatx.com