Thursday, October 9th 2008
AMD Responds to Intel's Publication Earlier Today
AMD spokesman reassured today that the deal between AMD and Advanced Technology Investment Company won't violate any of the patent agreements AMD made with its main competitor Intel. Let me remind you that earlier that day Intel said it would review its processor licensing agreement with AMD, especially the agreement which allows AMD to use Intel's x86 chip instruction set, to ensure the ATIC deal does not violate any patent agreements. Phil Hughes, an AMD spokesman, wrote in an e-mail today:
"We are completely confident the structure of this transaction takes into account our cross-license agreements,"
"Rest assured - we plan to continue respecting Intel's intellectual property rights, just as we expect them to respect ours."
Financial analyst Hans Mosesmann even believes that the dispute between the two giants may become a weapon for Intel to solve some of its problems in court. If Intel manages to find something is wrong with this deal it can use it against Advanced Micro Deviced and make AMD drop the long-standing anti-trust suits against the company. Continue reading the full story here.
Source:
eWeek
"We are completely confident the structure of this transaction takes into account our cross-license agreements,"
"Rest assured - we plan to continue respecting Intel's intellectual property rights, just as we expect them to respect ours."
Financial analyst Hans Mosesmann even believes that the dispute between the two giants may become a weapon for Intel to solve some of its problems in court. If Intel manages to find something is wrong with this deal it can use it against Advanced Micro Deviced and make AMD drop the long-standing anti-trust suits against the company. Continue reading the full story here.
33 Comments on AMD Responds to Intel's Publication Earlier Today
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Go AMD Go!
What else to expect from a man whose previous system was a friggin P4 and currently uses an imaginary Bloomfield...If it was for Intel's US design team(s) Nehalem would be a P4 derivate which is exactly what the codename "Nehalem" originally was.
seriously, i dont want to see AMD dig a hole for themselves over the cross licensing thingy,
their too important as a competitor for pricing and for consumer choice too. I have confidence in AMDs R&D and the Athlon 64 is one proof that when they are fully funded, ect. that they release great processors. so hopefully they get through this APIC/intel facepunch ok and can afford to create another winning processor series
doesn't this all sound somewhat similar to nVidia only a few months prior to ATI's HD4000 series?
Either way, Intel should be kissing AMD's ass right now, if it wasn't for AMD's innovations and advancements, Intel's processors wouldn't be worth the silicone they're printed on. Thanks to AMD, we saw Intel's early CPUs drop in price. AMD also developed the x64 instruction extensions that will be the future (at some point). AMD was one of the few companies developing and pushing flash memory through the mid to late 90s, the first to develop a dual-core CPU, and ahs continued to push for new innovations in the market, new techonology, and better means of doing things. Same goes for ATI.
As much as I've been a supported of Intel procs over the last score years, it's about time Intel takes a goodswift kick in the nuts. If AMD ever does go down, I guarantee you on that day I will dig out every single Intel CPU I have laying around, going all the way back to a 186, box them up, and ship them to Intel's front door.
P6 CPUs= (286/386=IPC vs Clocks) Pentium Pro, Pentium 2/3, Core/Core 2.
Clock Speed CPUs= 486/Pentium 1, Pentium 4, Pentium D.
And ive noticed that Intel hasnt brought anything out Innovative,
AMD with the Point to point bus, 64bit Instruction set for Consumer Market, Monolithic CPU designs. AMD releases something excellent and Intel tries to follow in their footsteps but tries to 1 Up them. Call me a fanboy if you want but ive been on both sides of the fence, ive owned all 4 companies Parts.