Thursday, November 12th 2009
AMD and Intel Announce Settlement of All Antitrust and IP Disputes
Intel Corporation and Advanced Micro Devices today announced a comprehensive agreement to end all outstanding legal disputes between the companies, including antitrust litigation and patent cross license disputes.
In a joint statement the two companies commented, "While the relationship between the two companies has been difficult in the past, this agreement ends the legal disputes and enables the companies to focus all of our efforts on product innovation and development."
Under terms of the agreement, AMD and Intel obtain patent rights from a new 5-year cross license agreement, Intel and AMD will give up any claims of breach from the previous license agreement, and Intel will pay AMD $1.25 billion. Intel has also agreed to abide by a set of business practice provisions. As a result, AMD will drop all pending litigation including the case in U.S. District Court in Delaware and two cases pending in Japan. AMD will also withdraw all of its regulatory complaints worldwide. The agreement will be made public in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
In a joint statement the two companies commented, "While the relationship between the two companies has been difficult in the past, this agreement ends the legal disputes and enables the companies to focus all of our efforts on product innovation and development."
Under terms of the agreement, AMD and Intel obtain patent rights from a new 5-year cross license agreement, Intel and AMD will give up any claims of breach from the previous license agreement, and Intel will pay AMD $1.25 billion. Intel has also agreed to abide by a set of business practice provisions. As a result, AMD will drop all pending litigation including the case in U.S. District Court in Delaware and two cases pending in Japan. AMD will also withdraw all of its regulatory complaints worldwide. The agreement will be made public in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
107 Comments on AMD and Intel Announce Settlement of All Antitrust and IP Disputes
"Maybe now AMD can focus on making a CPU that can compete in the desktop market " - clearly you haven't seen reviews (except I7), 955 and 965 are monster CPUs which sometimes kicks I7. Even the little 720 threatens the C2Q 9650. You can build a good spanking Gaming PC for less than $400 with AMD+ATI than I7 or C2Q:D
This way AMD gets part of the money and they have a new agreement for the intelectual properties and will maybe play nice together for a while. I'm also happy for Intel as I wish them no harm despite what has happened in the past.
It looks like a win win to me for both companies.
Kei
(as for making a cpu that "competes"....you must be joking or blind...or just hateful lol)
And NO YOU are wrong NO one was found guilty they just settled out of court . And NO this is far from the end of story And once them prices stop falling and go the other way maybe then you will see through that AMD green haze you are in . Intel was wrong and they knew yes maybe so I do not care what I care about is how this is all going to play out on the pocket books of the consumer and so far it is not looking all that good .
When the government looses money what do they do ? Raise taxes , what does the oil industry do when they need BILLIONS ???? They raise the price of fuel !! You will see . :twitch:
Don't understand, so you always want AMD to get hit hard so you can buy Intel CPUs for cheap (which they aren't BTW)?
Yes I don't want both companies to raise prices, hopefully I don't buy a single core CPU for $150 like olden days. May be if that is the case I would have chosen a different hobby :D and reduced my house warming :roll:
AMD CEO = WOW we just got 1.25 Billion dollars now we can start some real R&D !!
Intel = WOW we just lost 1.25 billion dollars looks like we need to raise the prices !
1,25bil is pocket money for Intel. They make that much in a yearly quatter. Remember the EU fine? Well Intell covered the whole thing and still made a profit in Q3 this year...
Prices won't go up, nor down but at least AMD can patch up the leaks and we can be sure Intel'll still have some competition on the CPU market.
Plus ATi went under back then, the GPU market wouldn't be what it is today... "Hey check it out, the entirely NEW GTX 8800+!@#$@$ is out @ the egg and it only costs your firstborn child plus half your soul!"
But if you think that loosing billions of dollars is not going to affect you in some way you are the one needing classes ! Just because Intel is a money making cash cow doesn't take this one fact away THEY LOST 1.25 BILLION dollars ! The fact remains Intel LOST hard money and just because they make it in a quarter doesn't take the fact that they no longer have it now does it ? What do you think they are going to do then ? Play nice ? lower prices ? how about laying off 200 -500 people ? when companies loose cash they have to think of ways to save it as well . So when you think about it yes this has HURT Intel BIG TIME and AMD is loving it too . But to think this is in some way going to help you in the future is dumb ! No the only ones that have won any thing here is AMD to the tune of 1.25 BILLION dollars !
Maybe now Intel will stop there BS and start to act like a company ?
As for your condescending remarks maybe will all find out just how good this deal was ?
"THEY LOST 1.25 BILLION dollars" - Out of their 10 billion gained in cheating money they gave back 1.25 so they still are at profit.
"how about laying off 200 -500 people" - you are talking about this? When Intel went to dark side and played fool game, guess what happened, AMD had to fold and let go lots of people. So you like that?
And oh I am done with this here. No point in talking. :mad:
Intel cant take it out on us. for Intel to take it out on us they would have to raise the prices. that isnt going to happen because we have AMD pumping out some great products for CPU & GPU markets
basically since AMD was infused with that, we as consumers are actually going to benefit even moreso because AMD will become more competetive and also please their investors. as consumers we want their investors happy so they they can do their job w/out being hassled
A 1.25 Billion "lost" is really nothing for them. This is how freakin rich Intel is.
It is richer and more powerful than most countries in the World.
Kei
You guys need to stop saying 'pocket money' or 'this is nothing to intel', especially the ones recommending economy classes to other members. The EU fine and this payout here represent roughly 43% of Intel's year to date income. Paid out in a 2 month time span. I can guarantee you their accountants are looking for slack in their budget right now.
Now yes, this is their income that's taking a hit, so its over and above their regular operating expenses. However 'Income' doesn't translate into 'money straight into the bank'. A company's profits are used to fund expansions and asset aquisition, more R&D, expanding their work force, extraneous expenditures (fines lol) and many other things. I can also bet you that Intel has a team of monkeys that sit down and earmark this money for uses months in advance. What happens when 43% of their funding pool suddenly gets paid out?
Now this won't sink Intel, but I can guarantee you they felt it.