http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/Nov 12th 2009 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/Nov 12th 2009 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/
Intel markets so aggressively now that I see their commercials and hear the "BUM BUM BU BAA" jingo constantly.

AMD has none of that appeal and is only purchased as a less-expensive option.

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1. Change marking strategy, people do not trust a company who's advertisements look like they are for KIRF products and who's product stickers look like they are mid-90s CG art (refering to the phenom logo)

2. Stop making your primary market the "bottom of the barrel" computers. People will associate your company with your products that your chips are in...if 80% of your products are the crappy 400 dollar notebooks, people will be like...oh AMD, isn't that the sticker you see on the crappy computers? Even intel breaks away from this by putting plain stickers on the crapbooks and nice stickers on the good notebooks.]]>Nov 12th 2009 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/How about netbooks with Congo chipsets? The Neo processor might not be as "efficient" as the Atom, but the GPU, no memory limit, etc will easily make up for that.

Netbooks are getting popular, they should really look in to that. AMD has very efficient processors and proper graphics hardware, yet they don't want to build on that advantage they have.
They might aswell want to kick in their own windows.

Also, SPEED UP THE FUSION PROJECT!! They can kick Intel's ass with their superior GPU technology and their recently acquired cache memory technology licence.
Expanding UVD would be nice aswell. Integrating interconnect (PCI Express) and host bus (SATA/SAS/SSD) controllers on the APU die should be the next step.
AMD is the king of innovation, yet Intel has an advantage of about a generation. This could help them get back on track.]]>Nov 14th 2009 8:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/Nov 12th 2009 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/Nov 12th 2009 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/Nov 12th 2009 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/Nov 12th 2009 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/Nov 12th 2009 10:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/Nov 12th 2009 11:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/
Yea, but there seems to be billions of dollars thrown around these days.... *cough* US *hack* government. Maybe Intel wants to get on the throwing money away bandwagon...]]>Nov 12th 2009 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/Nov 12th 2009 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/Nov 12th 2009 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/Nov 12th 2009 11:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/Nov 12th 2009 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/Nov 12th 2009 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/Nov 12th 2009 10:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/
It's okay if a company uses its monopoly status so that it can crush competition rather than try to innovate and compete with them? Guess what companies do when they no longer have any competition...]]>Nov 12th 2009 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/
Personally I agree with CarpeD1em500 100%...what he speaks of is true capitalism...something this country has less and less of. I've never agreed with Monopoly protection, but it wasn't even made for product producers, it was put into place way back when (around the same time as unions) to prevent companies from gaining strangleholds on infrastructural industries (such as transportation, electricity, and telephones). How can a PRODUCT manufacture have a monopoly...if people are not happy with a product manufacture they can choose not to buy the product, this isn't like a evil railroad tycoon who people can't get to work without the train (and don't say, "well people NEED to use computers", because you know that is BS, its that we have allowed ourselves to become dependent on them...a short 30 year ago this way NOT the case).

Besides, if you have read the "Wealth of Nations", you would know that true Capitalism does work...if intel really was a Monopoly another company would be forced to come up with the next best thing in order to counter them....greed is the driving force of innovation. All this babysitting is half of what is wrong with the economy in the first place, and companies need to stop wasting time and money suing each other out of existence and spend those resources on R&D instead. ]]>Nov 12th 2009 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/
Just because it happened recently doesn't make it untrue. It is a fact to run a successful business in almost any industry you need a computer. Also you need to get over your pipe-dream. How do you suppose a new company is going to produce and market a competitive product while the much larger company is actually paying people not to use it.

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as i said, read the wealth of nations, it's outline pretty clearly ]]>Nov 12th 2009 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/Nov 12th 2009 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/
Did you even know what the allegations against intel were?

Product manufacturers can certainly have monopolies. And they can certainly violate anti-competitive laws that were set up to protect the consumers. Companies with majority marketshare can easily choke supply channels so that their vendors have no choice but to agree to exclusivity agreements, but this practice is illegal in America.

There are certain legal IP restrictions preventing other companies from entering the x86 arena. Thus, in order to manufacture an CPU that uses the x86 ISA requires a license from intel. AMD is the only one exempt mostly due to previous licenses and an intel-AMD court settlement in the 90s. That, and the fact that any level of R&D to make a competing product can cost billions, is a barrier for smaller companies to enter that market. Ever heard of Transmeta? Cyrix? Those companies made cheap and capable alternatives to intel chips, yet were easily crushed in the marketplace not due to simple free-market competition, but rather litigation and channel-stuffing.

I would agree that true capitalism is not possible, given that we live in an society where even simple ideas can be patented and given special exclusivity rights. But that's irrelevant to the topic.]]>Nov 12th 2009 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/Nov 12th 2009 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/
While you are not writing blogs, I sincerely hope you spend your free time inventing some interesting and very valuable technology that you patent (using patent "monkeys" of course - to obtain the strongest patent). Then I hope someone really big and really rich infringes your patent(s). Then lets see how long it is before you go running into the office of some other "monkeys" and sue the infringer to obtain your rightful share of the (mega) profits.

Grow up man. You might not like "monkeys," but "monkeys" are the ones that people go to the nanosecond they feel wronged. Oh, and name calling is so 2nd grade.]]>Nov 12th 2009 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/Nov 12th 2009 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/Nov 12th 2009 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/Nov 12th 2009 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/
AMD will still be called as witnesses. essentially Intel will spin it that they are correcting their wrongs of past so they don't get slapped with billion dollar fines like the EU did.Consumers and countries can still take them to court as could computer manufacturers/ retailers now everyone can smell blood in the water.

Essentially AMD has been given the all clear to let Global Foundries use x86 without breaking their agreement with Intel, Intel will start paying royalties on AMD patents and vice versa.

So I would not say that Intel is grinning from ear to ear while handing over the cash.]]>Nov 12th 2009 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/
INTC (19.88 +0.04 +0.20%) Mkt cap: 109.17B

$1.25B is pretty much just random noise to INTC.
]]>Nov 12th 2009 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/Nov 12th 2009 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/More words: I just hope Intel doesn't have to compensate by raising the prices on chips, that would really suck. Also wonder if this hit will hinder "development and innovation"]]>Nov 12th 2009 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/
In my opinion, I think Intel would be pretty pleased with the agreement that they have signed with AMD. For $1.25b, Intel has bought:

* settlement for all antitrust and IP disputes with AMD, and
* a 5-year cross license agreement to find out AMDs secrets for the next 5 years.

Yes, the cross license agreement also gives AMD Intel's secrets for the next 5 years, however Intel is the juggernaut with the greater manpower and resources to exploit the cross license agreement to make sure it can trump AMD's secrets. AMD won't have the manpower or resources to trump Intel's secrets in a timely fashion.

I'm not an Intel lover or AMD hater, however this is what I read out of the agreement. I think the community as a whole would suffer if AMD wasn't around, giving Intel an even larger dominance in the market. For me, the question is whether AMD can effectively use the $1.25b to invest in manpower and manufacturing to be a real competitor against Intel.]]>Nov 12th 2009 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/
I guess the problem for AMD here is that they need the money now and Intel knows that too.]]>Nov 12th 2009 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/
I'd like to go back in the days when AMD was better and cheaper.]]>Nov 12th 2009 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/Nov 12th 2009 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/Nov 12th 2009 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/
The problem with AMD is a combination of marketing and poorly showing products for the CPU side of the company. these problems need to be fixed, before they can even hope to (re)capture the lead.]]>Nov 13th 2009 7:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/Nov 12th 2009 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/
AMD has been giving outstanding value for money products, and the consumer has to be thankful there's a competition alive. intel alone with cyrix as a distant second would be a disaster. clearly, all of us including the intel fanboys owe their low prices/ great performance benefits to AMD fighting it tooth and nail.]]>Nov 12th 2009 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/
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Oh well, at the bright side, at least I am pretty sure AMD will finally have a green quarter this time.]]>Nov 12th 2009 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/Nov 12th 2009 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/Nov 12th 2009 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/Nov 12th 2009 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/intel-shells-out-1-25-billion-to-settle-all-amd-litigation/Nov 12th 2009 12:40PM