AMD Subpoenas Skype

I_am_Rambi writes "AMD has issued a subpoena to Skype in the battle of the anti-trust case against Intel. From the article: 'AMD is now focusing on a feature in Skype 2.0 that enables the ability to make 10-person conference calls only with Intel dual-core processors. Users with AMD dual-core chips or single-core chips are restricted to hosting five-person conference calls because only Intel's chips offer the performance necessary to host the 10-way call, according to Skype. [...] Skype's software is using a function called "GetCPUID" to permit 10-way conference calls only when that function detects an Intel dual-core processor on start-up.'"

Comments

Next Target?

[aftk2]

Apple, for failing to include AMD processors in their offerings, upon their switch to x86.

Re:Who didn't see this coming?

[mapmaker]

they are waving a red flag waving 'we are anti-competative'.

The other side of their flag says 'And we ar bad spellurs two!'

Re:Do we have evidence that Intel coerced...

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Re:Good

[bherman]

This is

Re:Not being a programer myself,

[Warg! The Orcs!!]

Ok then then Ladies, first one to do it wins.....

I've said this before

[m50d]

AMD should set their CPUID to "GenuineIntel". It's for interoperability grounds - Intel have shown they will use it to try and damage the performance of programs on AMD machines - so there shouldn't be any trademark issue, and it would stop this kind of crap once and for all.