AMD has filed an antitrust complaint against Intel, alleging all sorts of unsavoury practices, and judging that from the fact that it was filed in court rather than in a blog, I would guess AMD thinks it is illegal.
AMD says Intel has paid Dell and Toshiba huge sums not to do business with AMD. It says Sony was paid "millions for exclusivity" and as a result AMD’s share of Sony’s business went from 23 percent in 2002 to 8% in 2003, down to 0% today.
Full Article. Definately big news and AMD seem intent on making it all very public so it'll be interesting to see where this all goes. promoted forum item
dumb. big business's always do monopolisation deals with each other... the companies that amd mentions are some of the most guilty of monopoly. like the company i work for is a design house & we make deals with component manufacturers who will give us discounts in return for us using them exclusively. it's standard bizniz practice as far as i am concerned. sony are one of the worst for making business monopolies... amd are just whinging coz intel was in first with the deals.
yes, nonetheless there are rules governing what you can and can't do in this area, and perhaps AMD have good reason for believing Intel overstepped their mark.
Intel designed its compilers, which translate software programs into machine-readable language, to degrade a program's performance if operated on a computer powered by an AMD microprocessor Very interesting.
Intel designed its compilers, which translate software programs into machine-readable language, to degrade a program's performance if operated on a computer powered by an AMD microprocessor
While it may be true that the intel compilers run like ass on AMD microprocessors, it might be very hard to prove that it was the intention to do exactly that.
Intels defence will be that they optimised the compilers to work to the best possible outcome on Intel processors. Chances are that optimisations for one processor would hurt the other, because when you get down to that level of programming ... optimisations always hurt something.
IIRC, Intel faced antitrust charges years ago (before Microsoft's antitrust). Unlike Microsoft, they apologised and made changes. Hopfully they'll do the right thing again.
i knew my love for amd would pay off in the long run
Intel is getting into a bad position now. In the past avid intel fan boys (me) have been able to find excuse after excuse for keeping intel computers. However, for the last year or so there just isn't any valid reason for using Intel over AMD anymore (as far as I can see anyway).
AMD wins on most of the score sheets (that matter).
I love AMD now... if only they were intellent enough to come up with their own chipset that got the most out of their product..
I really do feel for Intel... there are so many users out their with Intel cpus that are running in NVidia, Via or SIS based boards that think they've bought 'the real deal'. hehe and stuff...
maybe Amd could work out how to develop a P4 chipset that outpaced any Intel-based mobo on the market.. nah that'd be asking waaay too much of them. they're 1337, AnD tHaTs AlL tHaT MaTtErs MeAnS :)
'still waiting for someone here to post a current AMD Media Centre hardware config that can achieve anywhere near Intel's old 865 standard offerings...
how hard can it be to convince a mobo manfacturer to build a mobo that'll simultanteously record from two HDTV cards in 5.1 sound perfectly *and* play videogames?
how hard can it be to convince a mobo manfacturer to build a mobo that'll simultanteously record from two HDTV cards in 5.1 sound perfectly *and* play videogames? You mean AMD hardware works with single-card video recording now? I guess that's progress.
