Intel sued by AMD
p2pnet.net News:- AMD is suing Intel for worldwide coercion of A-brand vendors, local assemblers, distributors and retailers to maintain its position in the x86 microprocessor market and restrict AMD’s business opportunities, says ITP Technology.
Filed yesterday in the US, the suit claims Intel forced major vendors including Dell, Sony, Toshiba and Gateway into, “Intel-exclusive deals; used rebates, allowances and MDF to force other major vendors such as Acer, NEC and Fujitsu into partial exclusivity agreements; established a system of discriminatory and retroactive incentives that effectively denied customers the freedom of purchasing AMD processors in significant volumes, and threatened retaliation against customers introducing AMD platforms,” says the story, going on:.
“The report also accuses Intel of establishing and enforcing quotas among key retailer around the world and forcing PC vendors to boycott AMD product launches and promotions.”
The suit follows a recent Fair Trade Commission of Japan ruling which concluded Intel abused its monopoly power to exclude fair and open competition, says ITP, adding:
“ The European Commission is also pursuing an investigation against Intel for similar possible antitrust violations.”
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ITP Technology – AMD accuses Intel, June 28, 2005
June 28th, 2005 at 4:39 pm
this kind of sounds like BS… Intel has more fab facilities.. so they can sell for cheaper… sorry AMD… its called competition.
i’d like to see the proof of how intel acually forced anyone to Boycott AMD… then maybe i’d see AMD’s side.
June 28th, 2005 at 6:16 pm
But again if Intel is like Microsoft being shielded by obsolete and assinine copyright and patent law in united states Then maybe Amd may have a point.
The copyright and patent law in the united states has not been reformed ever since the Sherman antitrust law was written in the 19th century so it allows slops like Intel And Microsoft to run business monoplies That market and sell half baked consumer products and junk.
That would be classified as the classic sherman act like antitrust suit.
LACK OF BUSINESS COMPETETION LEADS TO OVERPRICED AND SHODDILY MADE HALF BAKED SLOP.
THAT IS THE FLIPSIDE OF THE THEORY OF THEFT OF PRIVATE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DISCOURAGES INNOVATION.
Microsoft is the biggest offender in this regard for all of the security problems they had with the windows operating system.
The movie and music industry could also be defined as a classic example of a business monopoly.
June 28th, 2005 at 6:17 pm
But again if Intel is like Microsoft being shielded by obsolete and assinine copyright and patent law in united states Then maybe Amd may have a point.
The copyright and patent law in the united states has not been reformed ever since the Sherman antitrust law was written in the 19th century so it allows slops like Intel And Microsoft to run business monoplies That market and sell half baked consumer products and junk.
That would be classified as the classic sherman act like antitrust suit.
LACK OF BUSINESS COMPETITION LEADS TO OVERPRICED AND SHODDILY MADE HALF BAKED SLOP.
THAT IS THE FLIPSIDE OF THE THEORY OF THEFT OF PRIVATE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DISCOURAGES INNOVATION.
Microsoft is the biggest offender in this regard for all of the security problems they had with the windows operating system.
The movie and music industry could also be defined as a classic example of a business monopoly.
June 28th, 2005 at 7:23 pm
The whole capitalism shit is a monopoly anyway…
AMD has always survived only for the purpose of Intel bypassing lame anti-trust laws, now all they’ll get is some monkey money from Intel, will AMD sue Apple too ? After all Apple chose Intel, putting Intel into a bigger monopoly, not to mention that most handheld today runs Intel ARM processors too.
It means that in xmas 2006 you won’t find anything that doesn’t run on Intel and Amd is only (mainly ?) doing x86 processors (which has always been a very bad architecture, to cpus what windoze is to OS…) and only survived by making cheaper chips.
There never was any concurrence between Intel and Amd, they all agreed on not evolving computers and now Amd tries to sell overpriced inefficient 64 bit cpus we should have had 10 years ago or 20.
The whole capitalism shit is leading us to the same shit there was in Soviet Union : one big company owning and controling everything and denying every rights to people.
June 29th, 2005 at 4:46 am
Your arguments follow slippery slopes and you discredit yourself as you comments become more extensive.
You have shown no proof of:
* Capitalism “shit” being a monopoly, whatever this specifically means
* AMD’s purpose being anti-trust protection for Intel (which would cause it to be part of a trust after all)
* That AMD and Intel agreed not to “evolve computers”
* That AMD’s 64-bit CPUs are “overpriced and inefficient”
* That 64-bit CPU architectures could have been put onto chips as far back as 20 years ago
* That we are going to become a new form of the Soviet Union via capitalism.
Where do you come up with this stuff? Where is your proof, your references? You appear to be making statements that have no basis in fact. Congratulations! You’re a typical illogical idiot! Good job.
June 29th, 2005 at 3:34 pm
“The whole capitalism shit is leading us to the same shit there was in Soviet Union : one big company owning and controling everything and denying every rights to people.”
What a moron…
June 29th, 2005 at 5:16 pm
U2.