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AMD Receives Blow to Intel Lawsuit

by , 4:55 PM EDT, September 27th, 2006

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) on Wednesday saw part of its lawsuit against Intel dismissed by a district court judge who wrote: "AMD's allegations, taken in the light of the most favorable to AMD, describe a foreign effect and a foreign harm that have had ripple effects for the domestic market, but have not had any direct, substantial or reasonable effect which would give rise to an antitrust claim within the jurisdictional reach of the Sherman Act."

The judge's decision concluded: "Accordingly, the court will dismiss AMD's claims based on alleged lost sales of AMD's microprocessors to foreign customers." An IDG News article said that Intel sought to have the claims dismiss because AMD manufacturers processors in Germany and assembles them in the Far East. With AMD already seeking damages through overseas courts, Intel argued that the claims against it were outside U.S. courts' jurisdiction.

An Intel spokesman commented to IDG: "We are pleased that the judge appears to have agreed without legal argument to remove those aspects of the case outside U.S. jurisdiction."

Thomas M. McCoy, AMD's chief administrative officer and executive vice-president of legal affairs, countered: "Notwithstanding the judge's ruling today, Intel cannot escape antitrust scrutiny for its conduct, wherever in the world it occurs. As this U.S. litigation is joined by global antitrust investigations, it is clear that Intel cannot escape the consequences of its illegal monopoly abuses."

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Close Name:dhp Posts: 180 Joined: 22 May 2003
Subject: Losing track

Okay, so do we hate AMD now that we don't hate Intel anymore, or are we hoping that Apple will switch to AMD at some point and then we'll start hating Intel again?

Close Name:Biff Posts: 1479 Joined: 08 Apr 2004
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I think thats up to you to decide. I happen to think Intel has spent the last few years making discoveries and creating technology that we are just starting to see now and that are going to allow them to leapfrog AMD.

So its not hating AMD really. Its just from looking at what I believe are the potentials of each company over, say, the next decade, I personally believe Apple made the right choice.

Close Name:Mikuro Posts: 451 Joined: 15 Jun 2002
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I also think Apple made the right choice. But I'm glad they had a choice, and I would like for choices to continue to exist.

Anticompetitive behavior is always bad. If Intel gains and holds their lead by making the best products, then good for them. If they gain and hold their lead by choking their competition, that's bad.

I'm always in AMD's corner. It's not that I'm anti-Intel, it's just that competition and choice are good — especially now that the PPC is basically out of the picture in the desktop/laptop realm.

But I honestly don't know enough about the details of the case to tell if Intel really has done anything anticompetitive. It's possible AMD is just whining because they're losing ground.

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