AMD Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Intel

AMD has just filed an antitrust lawsuit against Intel. AMD states in its press release that the complaint details "... how Intel has unlawfully maintained its monopoly in the x86 microprocessor market by engaging in worldwide coercion of customers from dealing with AMD. It identifies 38 companies that have been victims of coercion by Intel - including large scale computer-makers, small system-builders, wholesale distributors, and retailers, through seven types of illegality across three continents."

Excerpted by /. reader :

When AMD succeeded in getting on the HP retail roadmap for mobile computers, and its products sold well, Intel responded by withholding HP's fourth quarter 2004 rebate check and refusing to waive HP's failure to achieve its targeted rebate goal; it allowed HP to make up the shortfall in succeeding quarters by promising Intel at least 90% of HP's mainstream retail business.

*Threatening retaliation against customers for introducing AMD computer platforms, particularly in strategic market segments such as commercial desktop;

*Then-Compaq CEO Michael Capellas said in 2000 that because of the volume of business given to AMD, Intel withheld delivery of critical server chips. Saying "he had a gun to his head," he told AMD he had to stop buying.

"That sounds pretty damning."

- Go, AMD! Nothing like rooting for the under-dog, lol. Besides, their AMD64 chips do run cooler and faster. More useful work done per megahertz, per watt, and all that - *respect*. To me, Intel's current P4 chips are the SUV's of the CPU world - 60++ degC, 100++W energy guzzlers. And long-time readers probably know what I think about SUV's ...

(2005-06-28 22:28:09 SGT) [Biz] Permalink

Oil prices holding above $60

yahoo.com, reuters.com :

Oil prices held above $60 a barrel on Tuesday as speculators sought to test the resilience of strong world demand to high prices.

U.S. crude traded 26 cents lower at $60.28 a barrel having set a record $60.95 on Monday when the front-month contract closed above $60 for the first time since trading started in 1983. London Brent eased 33 cents to $58.97 a barrel after hitting a record $59.59 on Monday.

A buying surge by speculative funds has pushed prices up almost by a third since May amid growing fears of a global strain on production and refining capacity, especially in the fourth quarter, when demand for heating oil peaks.

- the telling part, actually, is in the closing statement :

... heightened geopolitical worries weigh heavily on an oil market sensitive to any potential outages since spare production capacity is limited to small unused volumes in Saudi Arabia.

(2005-06-28 18:41:39 SGT) [Energy] Permalink

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