Comments on: Intel and AMD: A long history in court

Monday's suit doesn't mark the first time AMD has accused Intel of antitrust violations. We look back at the companies' legal tangles.

Its About Time

I have been in the IT business from the days of the first Pentium machines, its about time AMD is going after Intel, the entire company has turned into a market powerhouse of rich flithy jerks. 56 Opteron servers to 23 Intel servers....which do I prefer hands down? AMD. I wish them luck this will a great case and believe me, Intel definitly does everything that AMD is saying.

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I love AMD to death but...

I love AMD. I have ever since I got the old K6-2 chips. All of the PCs that I build have AMD chips in them. This is the kind of stuff I hate. In my opinion AMD has a better product and has for a long time. This suing the bigger guy gets on my nerves though. This is the first article I think I've ever read that makes me actually lose a little respect for AMD.

This is the first I've heard of Intel doing such things and if they really are doing this sort of thing then yeah they deserve whatever the courts give them as a punishment.

I just hate to see companies throwing out lawsuits when they aren't doing so well. I hope this isn't some scheme to get attention or get some extra cash.

I'll wait and see how this pans out, but it just bothers me. I'll still be buying AMD for now though :)

[domino360]

The battle of egos?

AMDs claim of monopoly is just an Inferiority Complex syndrome.

I don't care about chip manufacturers as long as they don't make faulty products (IBM has a reputation with that), and I'm not fanatical about Intel, AMD or any of them. My ultimate system doesn't exist yet due to too many egocentric manufacturers.

If AMD is suing Intel because of the Intel logo on many comercials from PC manufacturers? Are these people stupid or pretending to forget something? When you see those crappy Dell ads with Intel inside, Intel has to pay for that logo (around 40% of the ad itself) to appear on the first place. So, AMD didn't you know that advertising doesn't come cheap?

I think this lawsuit is typical BS and I'm amazed of how shallow AMD can be to get 15 seconds of fame.

Maybe Intel should sue AMD for false advertising on Opteron 64. Or I guess that AMD doesn't want to talk about that.

Now, did AMD came out with 64 bit chips long before Intel did? Is that accurate description? Is it 64 bit extension or 64 bit architecture? AMD did released 2x32 bit chips that acted as dual-core and for marketing BS they called it 64 bit. It's only in June 2005 that 64 bit coding (extension) was added on AMD chips, and that's not 100% 64 bit either. In the semiconductor industry AMDs claim of 64 bit was a joke and that's why it didn't get much attention or publicity from the industry. But, a lot of consumers that don't know much about chip design bought the marketing BS AMD released and that helped AMD gain some market share. You could say this was false advertising, and most people don't know about it. AMD has a lot of problems releasing a fully 64 bit architecture chip. At the moment the only manufacturers competent of 64 bit architecture are Fujutsu, Texas Instruments, Intel, IBM and Silicone Graphics.

So AMD, you are not that clean as you think. And neither Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Adobe or Intel for that matter too.

[jamestony]

AMD vs. Intel

Couldn't have said it better myself!