AMD revives antitrust allegations against Intel
Advanced Micro Devices on Monday resurrected its old allegations against Intel, although it kept the salacious details under a thick layer of black ink.
AMD filed a heavily redacted brief as part of its ongoing antitrust case against Intel, saying it has new, specific evidence of Intel's misconduct but blacking out almost all of the evidence in the brief. AMD filed suit in 2005, claiming that Intel has used intimidation and predatory pricing to coerce PC and server vendors into excluding AMD's chips from their products. Intel denies all charges.
In its initial complaint, AMD claimed to have evidence of Intel's wrongdoing but has never shared specific allegations against individuals, or explained exactly how Intel's tactics were deployed. Now, it claims to have at least shared them with the court, although because specific individuals are named the redactions are apparently necessarily. The document is pretty much unreadable; I liked The Register's take on it.
Despite AMD's claims that it cites "chapter and verse" in the brief, as AMD's chief lawyer told The Wall Street Journal, the footnotes of the brief appear to be signals of who AMD needs to depose to prove its allegations. For example, following the first section in which AMD apparently lays out specific (if redacted) complaints involving Intel's dealings with Dell, the company's lawyers write: "Plaintiffs will likely need to depose witnesses from various levels of the Intel and Dell organizations to establish that (interesting, juicy part redacted)."
This case remains in the discovery phase, and any trial appears very far off.
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Having tried an AMD processor once and having nothing but problems with it I would never touch an AMD processor again.
Having bought two Radeon video cards to run three monitors on my system and still having troubles with them nearly a year after buying them I would never touch an ATI product again.
Hey, AMD make good products that are affordable, reliable and can compete speed wise with your competition. Otherwise don't whine like preschoolers because someone has better bubblegum.
Robert
- by kyle172 May 7, 2008 1:06 AM PDT
- Has this guy lost his mind or was he Brain washed. AMD has every right in the world to file unfair competition charges. Look anywhere and you will see it.
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- by WulfTheSaxon May 26, 2008 8:54 PM PDT
- Most people aren't aware that Intel's 64-bit architecture is a near-exact clone of AMD64, bar a couple missing features.
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(3 Comments)es MOST gamers prefer AMD and people DO want to buy AMD products ATI is legend one of the first graphics card I ever had. How can you disrespect a company that has been around for years reguardless of quality of the product. If you don't like your ATI card then don't "Whine" about it as you said