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
Come on, you know you wanna, and guess what? My processor's max rated temp is only 62degrees Celcius, nice and cool for you.:cool:
However your claim that Trickson should take economy classes when I've just provided a detailed reason of why Intel will feel the hit, as Trickson claimed, was the reason for my rebuttal of your statement. There was no subtle jab there.
AMD is looking great yes but tell me what advantage is this to us ?
I see this a huge loss for every one . But then again what do I know ? Less cash to work with means less fabrication and less R&D for Intel this is a big loss and AMD will I hope take advantage of this . Maybe they will have the dozer out and you can get one for $1,000.00 Just like they were doing with the Athlon X64 CPU's remember how they were pricing them bad boys out at ?
"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 !"
"Man how blind are you this is not a win win for any one of us ! Yes maybe Intel and AMD but for the consumer ? For the person that buys the product ? No you people just don't see it well not yet but you will soon when Intel has to raise prices to recoup the HUGE losses it is me and you that will be paying for this !"
your assumption of why I said he needed a class was incorrect...
AMD wins and consumers win even more
As I said, AMD is waiting with a shoulder to cry on and plenty of love, just for you!:toast:
Of course you forget that it probably won't be price raises that they use, but rather they'd likely delay price cuts on their line up. And as long as they lead the market, they have the power to do this.
I am sorry I just don't see this as a " good thing " for any one . But what is done is done and I only hope that this will not hurt Intel's R&D as if there is only one place able to deliver high end fast CPU's that we want we will end up paying more for them . I know AMD was doing this for years ! I payed $500 bucks for the 4000+ .
What do you do when your car gets a flat tire, jump out running and screaming, "IT'S GONNA EXPLODE AND KILL US ALL!!"?:laugh:
I take back what I said, if your store is charging you that much for AMD stuff, it's most probably one of the ones paid off by Intel, so go around the block to the next one. Or in the case of an estore, google again.;)
what are they gonna do? raise their pricing even higher? I think not- that would be shooting themselves in the foot...
this 1.25 billion is a minor speed bump to Intel and hardly affects them in the grand scheme of things. they are going to have to suck it up and move on
I fear this is going to make Intel stagnant , I don't really care one way or the other but when you pop a tire it is far easier to fix it than when you lose 1.25 BILLION dollars . Just some thing I see as not so good .
Intel did the evil deed and yes they are going to pay . But there is some whiplash waiting in the wind I fear from this . Lets just hope that Intel has learned a lesson .
If you take that huge amount away from one and give it to some one els there still remains the fact that 1.25 BILLION dollars are gone from one and that is going to hurt .
VWould not apply to price cuts if the price cuts happened before the fines. I could see them delaying price cuts in the future (after the fines happened, meaning they're now working it into their budget) and the best part for the business is the consumer doesn't know the difference. As long as Intel has a performance edge, they've got leeway.
Here's something to remember guys:
The goal of the CEO and other board members is to keep the company as profitable as possible. They answer to the people who own stock in their corporation. They want to keep the company as profitable as can be. They retain their jobs based on the share holders views of their actions. Black looks a lot better on paper than red, so I could see them taking measures to increase the amount of black seen on paper.
All I'm saying is I wouldn't be surprised if they pulled that kind of stuff. It doesn't affect me anyways as I buy 95% of my products at vastly reduced used pricing.
I don't think the CEO and board directors really care what's best for the consumers, unless they can use it to market the product. In this case, I also believe the mindset of the CEO regarding any repercussions of AMD profitability would be 'someone else's problem'. By the time it would show any negatives to Intel, years will have likely passed and a new CEO would likely be in place.
The thing is if intel raises prices too high to cover the cost of this then they will be in trouble because they will loose sales so it would be wise to leave it as it is because intel make so much money not just in the desktop front but in SSD sales, chipsets, Servers, OEM sales etc I couldn't list all the things that intel sells.
(Not to CHAOS's posts, to the end of the legal crap.)