AMD Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Intel

jonathan_ingram writes "As reported on GrokLaw, 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.""

Welcome to the new world.

[soulhuntre]

If you can't compete, legislate!

it's about bloody time

[PsychicX]

It's about damned time that AMD show down Intel's evil empire. AMD's Athlon64 is far superior to P4, they've got the fab capabilities to begin supplying OEMs, and after their new fab is done they'll be ready for the big time. All that stands in their way is Intel's anti competitive practices. I mean, Intel has been known to set pricing on Intel chips based on how many AMD chips your company purchases.

This is fun

[KrisCowboy]

We got 64-bit processors, dual-core processors and dual-core dual processors. Now we got a legal fight. This sure is fun. Wait a second, either one of them planning to lower the prices? I'm all for the spoils :-)

Re:Seriously....

[Lord Pillage]

My oxymoron detector just went through the roof.

What? A well known secret you say?

Perhaps I'm wrong

[stinerman]

Intel's share of this critical market currently counts for about 80 percent of worldwide sales by unit volume and 90 percent by revenue, giving it entrenched monopoly ownership and super-dominant market power.

I was under the assumption that most homemade PCs were AMD systems. Is that statistic including those?

Re:Seriously....

[Anonymous Coward]

....isn't it a well known serect that Intel give price break to people who won't use AMD?

Not as well known as the secrets surrounding spell check

Re:Welcome to the new world.

[wild_berry]

I read AMD's press release and think that the attitude of Intel is anticompetitive, but the actual transgressions did not seem wholly worthy of anti-trust litigation. I wouldn't go so far as to say you lines of "if you can't compete, legislate", but I doubt AMD will have success with this.

Tha would be a shame, because being able to buy a notebook computer from Dell with a Turion in it and without the Microsoft Tax would make a nice political message.

Re:Mac & Monopoly

[rwven]

Intel is their new hero. They'll probably brand AMD as a vile corperation bent on destruction of all things pretty or some garbage like that. :-)

Re:Seriously....

[bigjocker]

He said a well known serect, which is a perfectly valid pertrefection to the well known affirmatization.

Re:Marketing Strategy

[gwayne]

Actually, it's more like:

1. Coerce customers and suppliers
2. Drive all competitors under
3. Inflate prices due to monopoly power
4. Create vast hoardes of minimum-wage slaves
5. ???
6. Profit
7. Take over planet

Wow, I just described Wal-Mart [blogspot.com].

StrongARM tactics?

[tepples]

except, possibly, strongarm tactics by Intel.

StrongARM tactics? Don't you mean "XScale tactics" nowadays [wikipedia.org]?

Intel N?

[databyss]

Will this usher in the new era of the Intel N chip?

Users have to buy their own math co-processor!

Re:Could the be the way for Dell to finally ship A

[ImaLamer]

funny, sounds like the same problem they had with Microsoft...

poor Dell, getting locked into products because of the tactics their "friends" use...

It's True

[airship]

I was just THINKING about building a boxen with an AMD processor in it, and the doorbell rang. It was three guys in black suits and dark sunglasses. They told me they were from Intel, and they tied me up, beat me with a rubber hose, ate all my pretzels, drank all my beer, and shot my dog. They said they'd kill me if I didn't buy Intel. Believe me, after that, I built my boxen using an Intel processor! And I started wearing a tinfoil hat, too.

Can I take your computesr?

[DAldredge]

"The basic philosophy of libertarian socialism is summed up in the name: management of the common good (socialism) in a manner that maximizes individual liberty and minimizes concentration of power or authority (libertarianism). Libertarian socialism denies the legitimacy of private property, since private property, in the form of capital, leads to the exploitation of others with less economic means and thus infringes on the exploited class's individual freedoms."

Since you do not believe in private property please provide your address so I can come pickup the computers you are using.

Re:Intel began self-destructing several years ago.

[crabpeople]

wait.. HOLD ON.. slow down...

where do i go to get this intel doll?