AMD is suing Intel AGAIN!

[Archived in Entry, Intel, Intel]

[Blog-A-Rama] Is AMD really having trouble meeting expectations? Is Intel really running scared and has made a fatal mistake???

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 [Bayosphere | ...of, by and for the Bay Area] AMD Charges Intel with Antitrust Violations: Cnet: AMD files antitrust suit against Intel. The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court in Delaware, details alleged scare tactics and coercion that AMD claims Intel imposed on 38 different large-scale computer makers, small system builders, wholesale distributors and retailers.

[Cult of the Mike] Macintel: This also comfortsome in knowing that I don’t have to be worried next year when I walk into my local Apple store and want to get the new iLife, I know I wont have to have a new Macintel to run it. Rosetta is something that will help developers as well, this insures that even if a developer decides to not recompile for Intel, we’ll still be able to run PPC applications on the Macintel.

[Games from Within] The Winds of Change: More and moremultiprocessors are becoming the norm on PCs, and both Intel andAMD have been busy at work for several years to take advantage of this trend.When you can't make your processors faster, cheaper, and smaller,you need to start thinking of different directions to continueimproving performance. Herb Sutter has beentalking about it for a while now and he also sees it theinevitable future.

[Tuaw.com] The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW): One of the strong advantages that Apple has is that they control the hardware -- giving up this control means their OS would have to adapt to varying third-party engineering and driver writing skills. The risk in this is if a third party builds a substandard component, the end user doesn't see that, they see that their Mac is broken -- and blame it on Apple.

 [Ronbeas2.blogspot.com] Middle Earth Journal: Follow up on An Apple in your Intel PC: I had a post over at Running Scared yesterday, An Apple in your Intel PC, where I discussed Apple Computer's decision to move from Power PC chips from IBM to Intel x86 microprocessors. Jack Grant gives us his thoughts on the move today.

[Engadget.com] Apple looks at use of Intel chips? - Engadget - www.engadget.com: I think this is either for some small powerful device or More likely, if we're not talking about some sort of embedded processor deal, this is another attempt on Apple's part to gain some leverage over IBM. Much as Dell occasionally lets slip it's talking to AMD - the better, it's believed, to encourage Intel to be more supportive - so Apple may seek to influence IBM by approaching other processor makers.

 [Oreillynet.com] Switching to Intel: developers speak out: Switching to Intel: developers speak out: "Late last night (UK time) I set about contacting a number of OS X developers, asking them for their initial thoughts on the switch to Intel chips..." (Via O'Reilly Developer Weblogs.)...

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Posted at July 02, 2005 09:35 AM