The bitter court rivalry between Intel and AMD continues.
There's been a lot of discussion - a significant chunk of that quite heated at times - about the specific details of AMD's x86 licensed tech from Intel.
While that in and of itself is important, AMD believe that there is more to it than a simple legal disagreement - they reckon Intel want them shuffled off the mortal plane.
In a phone interview with Cnet, AMD's general counsel Harry Wolin had this to say:
"In their perfect world, we wouldn't exist. If they had to deal with the government every now and then, that's fine, and they're still extracting monopoly profits from the industry,"
While this seems pretty terrible for AMD (and by extension us), it's not particularly likely to happen - a massive upswing of OEM support will most likely keep them around.
What will probably happen is that lawsuits will be flung about between the two, arguing over whether GlobalFoundries is a subsidiary of AMD and if not, how to allow them to produce processors.
Head over to Cnet to read the rest of the info, but this doesn't seem like it's going to end particularly well.
Issue: 107 | December, 2009