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AMD Subpoenas Skype

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the who-didn't-see-this-coming dept.

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.'"

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  1. It's not an environment variable by Augusto · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's a function, so you can't override with with an environment variable.

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  2. utter **** by __aapspi39 · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's becoming clear why Apple went the Intel route - this kind of restrictive and unpleasant nonsense is right up their street.

    When AMD keeps on beating intel to the post (by country mile after country mile) then what the hell else can they do but cheat?

    Maybe they should diversify into high-end sound systems and make their money there! Anyone for monophonic intellihance surround, a mere snip at $300.