AMD sues Intel

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"Advanced Micro Devices, the world’s No.2 maker of x86 microprocessors, said Tuesday it had filed an antitrust lawsuit against Intel Corp., the world’s largest maker of chips, in U.S. federal district court for the district of Delaware accusing Intel of unfair competition, which limited market share growth of AMD.

“Everywhere in the world, customers deserve freedom of choice and the benefits of innovation -- and these are being stolen away in the microprocessor market,” said Hector Ruiz, AMD chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer. “Whether through higher prices from monopoly profits, fewer choices in the marketplace or barriers to innovation – people from Osaka to Frankfurt to Chicago pay the price in cash every day for Intel’s monopoly abuses.”

The antitrust complaint against Intel Corporation was filed under Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act, Sections 4 and 16 of the Clayton Act, and the California Business and Professions Code. 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 claims.

AMD said that Intel’s share of the x86 chip market currently counts for about 80% of worldwide sales by unit volume and 90% by revenue, “giving it entrenched monopoly ownership and super-dominant market power”.

AMD said Intel’s illegal and unfair actions include the following:

* Intel has forced major customers into exclusive or near-exclusive deals;

* Intel has conditioned rebates, allowances and market development funding on customers’ agreement to severely limit or forego entirely purchases from AMD;

* Intel has established a system of discriminatory, retroactive, first-dollar rebates triggered by purchases at such high levels as to have the practical and intended effect of denying customers the freedom to purchase any significant volume of processors from AMD;

* Intel has threatened retaliation against customers introducing AMD computer platforms, particularly in strategic market segments;

* Intel has established and enforced quotas among key retailers effectively requiring them to stock overwhelmingly, if not exclusively, Intel-powered computers, thereby artificially limiting consumer choice;

* It has forced PC makers and technology partners to boycott AMD product launches and promotions;

* Intel has abused its market power by forcing on the industry technical standards and products which have as their central purpose the handicapping of AMD in the marketplace."
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Source

Open Letter from CEO of AMD

Full complaint (PDF)

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The news team is not on and I could NOT wait to get this info out.
 
right format :

News by Xibit labs ( http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20050628010541.html )

"Advanced Micro Devices, the world’s No.2 maker of x86 microprocessors, said Tuesday it had filed an antitrust lawsuit against Intel Corp., the world’s largest maker of chips, in U.S. federal district court for the district of Delaware accusing Intel of unfair competition, which limited market share growth of AMD.

“Everywhere in the world, customers deserve freedom of choice and the benefits of innovation -- and these are being stolen away in the microprocessor market,” said Hector Ruiz, AMD chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer. “Whether through higher prices from monopoly profits, fewer choices in the marketplace or barriers to innovation – people from Osaka to Frankfurt to Chicago pay the price in cash every day for Intel’s monopoly abuses.”

The antitrust complaint against Intel Corporation was filed under Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act, Sections 4 and 16 of the Clayton Act, and the California Business and Professions Code. 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 claims.

AMD said that Intel’s share of the x86 chip market currently counts for about 80% of worldwide sales by unit volume and 90% by revenue, “giving it entrenched monopoly ownership and super-dominant market power”.

AMD said Intel’s illegal and unfair actions include the following:

* Intel has forced major customers into exclusive or near-exclusive deals;

* Intel has conditioned rebates, allowances and market development funding on customers’ agreement to severely limit or forego entirely purchases from AMD;

* Intel has established a system of discriminatory, retroactive, first-dollar rebates triggered by purchases at such high levels as to have the practical and intended effect of denying customers the freedom to purchase any significant volume of processors from AMD;

* Intel has threatened retaliation against customers introducing AMD computer platforms, particularly in strategic market segments;

* Intel has established and enforced quotas among key retailers effectively requiring them to stock overwhelmingly, if not exclusively, Intel-powered computers, thereby artificially limiting consumer choice;

* It has forced PC makers and technology partners to boycott AMD product launches and promotions;

* Intel has abused its market power by forcing on the industry technical standards and products which have as their central purpose the handicapping of AMD in the marketplace."
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Sorry, not on the news team, but I just could't wait for someone from the team to get on lol. And, you can email AMD about your thoughs in the "Open Letter From CEO" link. I already did :D.
 
!!!! cvery very nice

perfect this is what we have been waiting for i dunno what xms will say ! well it is true the same like ms forcing customers to have wmp so no competion can take place
 
NickS_ said:
Thank's Falcon :).

'course it's not as nice as your backgrounds :p ;) :worship:
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lol i guess i am working a little longer with PS then you are so... ;)

Nah looks pretty nice. Try to force yourself to "not use" PS predefined effects.
 
Nice Nick and good work on the news.

If ya can just put that whole text in quote's:

{QUOTE="XBit Labs"}Intel suck ass{/QUOTE}

(use [] instead of {} )

then can a mod move this to news section? :)
 
Ah the beauty of competition for the consumers dollar, it is rather 'bogus' of Intel to pull this kind of crap...."It alleges Intel paid NEC several million dollars to put caps on the amount of business it would do with AMD, and says that the chip-maker paid "huge sums" to Dell and Toshiba not to do business with AMD."

I guess the good thing that comes out of this, is that it appears that Intel are a little worried. Imho, it's healthy to have a little respect for your adversary, but to resort to this kind of caper is not on. 'More power to the consumer!!!' :)
 
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