Intel Threatens To Revoke AMD's x86 License

theraindog writes "AMD's former manufacturing division opened for business last week as GlobalFoundries, but the spin-off may run afoul of AMD's 2001 cross-licensing agreement with Intel. Indeed, Intel has formally accused AMD of violating the agreement, and threatened to terminate the company's licenses in 60 days if a resolution is not found. Intel contends that GlobalFoundries is not a subsidiary of AMD, and thus is not covered by the licensing agreement. AMD has fired back, insisting that it has done nothing wrong, and that Intel's threat constitutes a violation of the deal. At stake is not only AMD's ability to build processors that use Intel's x86 technology, but also Intel's ability to use AMD's x86-64 tech in its CPUs."

Comments

Re:Maybe Intel is scared of globalfoundaries?

[Anonymous Coward]

I just heard from an Arab buddy yesterday that the economy in Dubai is crashing super hard right now, far more than the US one is.

Re:if they do that

[Extide]

This is pretty much all correct but you ought to leave out the false MS bashing. They do implement PAE, and only certain versions of windows are 'allowed' to really utilize it to get >4gb in 32-bit, due to their licensing policies. Windows Client basically does not allow >4gb in 32bit, Windows Server does.

Re:if they do that

[abelb]

Cyrix make x86 processors.