Looks to me like the little company that can is hitting out right against Intel for Anti-trust and basically having a knifr in the back of PC manufacturers and distributers that sell Intels products. To quote the press release:

Quote: The 48-page complaint explains in detail how Intel has unlawfully maintained its monopoly in the x86 microprocessor market by engaging in worldwide coercion of customers from dealing with AMD. It identifies 38 companies that have been victims of coercion by Intel – including large scale computer-makers, small system-builders, wholesale distributors, and retailers, through seven types of illegality across three continents.

AMD is very pi$$ed off. So much so that they have launched a "Break Free" section to their website, issued a staggering 48-page complaint in the Delaware district, and issued the inevitable press release as previously stated. Japan's Fair Trade Commission is also involved in this little battle. According to PCWorld:

Quote: Fair Trade Commission (JFTC), suspects Intel's Japanese unit broke local antitrust regulations by offering incentives to major PC makers to limit their usage of processors from Intel's rivals, it said Tuesday. "Intel is engaging in actions to keep CPUs made by competing companies from being used," the JFTC said in a statement. "[These actions] are substantially limiting the CPU sales sector for domestic personal computer makers." The JFTC said that Intel's market share grew from 76 percent to 89 percent between 2002 and 2003 as a result of the practices.

Gateway will also appear at somec stage as well. Selling AMD based systems has resulted in:

Quote: "According to Gateway executives, their company has paid a high price for even its limited AMD dealings. They claim that Intel has "beaten them into 'guacamole'" in retaliation."

Intel has got away with this for years and now it seems AMD has decided to help one and all...the result will no doubt be interesting.

LINKAGE HERE to Press release
LINKAGE HERE to 48-PAGE PDF
LINKAGE HERE to BreakFree
LINKAGE HERE to Anandtech comments.

All I can say, is about time.


Intel has been a little long in the tooth and with how everyone has been saying microsoft is a evil empire its amazing how intel makes it through looking nice and clean.

Holy crap Its about time, I hate intel!!! GO AMD!!

Yeah, this has been going on for quite some time now. I am honestly suprised it has taken them so damn long to file this against Intel. But it is nice to see that they are finally taking a stand and doing something about it.

It's about time. I still don't understand why people like Intel so much. Go AMD.

Well my wonderful co-worker behind me says that he couldn't keep his system stable when he was running AMD and since then hes started to run intel he's had no troubles. Personaly I think AMD is a better deal all the way around. Especially with the 64 Bit market.

Thats awsome. I hope that AMD can gain market share, but i dont want Intel to fall into AMDs place. It would be great if they ended up like nVidia and ATI with regards to market share.

Quote: Originally Posted by hondatuner Well my wonderful co-worker behind me says that he couldn't keep his system stable when he was running AMD and since then hes started to run intel he's had no troubles. Personaly I think AMD is a better deal all the way around. Especially with the 64 Bit market.

Call your co-worker a noob and pimp-smack him/her in the face.

Quote: Originally Posted by anime-fan-man Call your co-worker a noob and pimp-smack him/her in the face.

I've tryed several things its like were on the opposite ends of just about everything I've just started to say "here's your sign" and leave it at that

[nostalgia]Ahh... it's been sooooo long since we've had a fan-boy (or fan-girl as the case may be due to our increasing female membership) thread.[/nostalgia]

As much as Tom's may be biased, have you all read the results from the stress test?

http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20050603/index.html

Looks Like AMD has the upper hand with 9/10 benchs probly cost less too. Intel has too many issues right now with its duel core, but at this point I would not buy either because of price and hardware/software issues.

*cough* the main title of this thread is?

Quote: Originally Posted by nev_payne *cough* the main title of this thread is?

Suppose your right srry its just some thing that makes me twitch when people say Intel is better then AMD and are so single track minded they would never give AMD a chance, I hope this lawsuit opens up some Eyes.

This article tells me that Intel is really starting to lose in the processor market, and has to CHEAT to hold on to it's market share! Damn, Intel sucks.

Wow, I honestly didnt see that coming. GO AMD!!!!!!!

Well, well, well... How the "mighty" have fallen...

Don't get me wrong, I have both Intel and AMD processors in my computers here at the house. What brand doesn't enter into it for me when it comes to F@H... If you're not folding, what are you waiting for? Get folding for Team PimpRig (596)!!!

I believe in free trade and competition, but when you have to resort to unfair trade practices like coercion and the like, it's time to get smacked.