Intel Settles with AMD for $1.25 Billion

Intel Settles with AMD for $1.25 Billion

Intel today agreed to pay $1.25 billion to settle all of its disputes with AMD. The agreement counts for both antitrust and payment issues, essentially ending the legal war between the two companies. Intel has been the target of many antitrust lawsuits over the last several years in the US, Asia, and Europe. In today's deal, Intel agreed to not participate in any more exclusionary tactics (even though the company insists it never participated in the first place), and both companies also agreed to meet quarterly and cross-license each other's patents for the next five years.

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Lol, i just saw on the stocks that AMD went up like $2 i guess that explains.

 

Wow that's a lot of money.

 

It's about time they quit suing each other and figure out how to accelerate parallelism in software development.

 

Meh, Intel can easily make that money back in 2010.

 

^^More like make that money back in a month...

 

Yea. But it's not like they're going away without the money. AMD on the other hand needs this. So it's a good thing for AMD, and a meh for Intel. Still a good thing overall.

 

AMD is in debt for $3.2 billion and there's talk that Intel may have settled so as to keep AMD from going under since without a competitor Intel risks government coming after them as being a monopoly.

 

Now those would be terrible news if AMD sinks and Intel is left alone.
VIA cannot challenge them, they simply dont do the same thing.

This is basically a pay-to-shut-them-up thing IMHO

 

Now that they are cross licensing, can we please hurry up and see some thin and lights with CULV's and decent graphics for a change, such as the HD3200?

 

Intel SU9600 and ATI 4200HD? Now that would be interesting.

 

Now they will only have to settle with the European Commission for $1.5 billion, although Intel has appealed, claiming the anti-trust fine violates their human rights.
Yeah, really, their human rights.
And settle with the New York Attorney General in the upcoming antitrust lawsuit.
And then, maybe, perhaps, eventually, they will stop distorting free market economics, illegally hurting the competition and hurting hundreds of millions of customers with their "Only Intel inside or else... '-tactics.
We'll see...

 

That EU fine was well-done, but the violating their human rights I found it quite funny when I read it...lol

 

good, i hate monopoly comapines, was very happy when i heard MS, had to get rid of I.E from Win7 and outlook..I hope AMD succeeds and stays, would be best for the market and intel or else the gov't might break them up..

 

Why not just take a su9400+Ati 4330 switchable graphics, like in the Timeline 3810TG?

 

Well Intel can't completely overtake the market or the government will get all over them. AMD isn't intrinsically bad; they just made a risky move at a bad time and it cost them a lot of money(money they're still paying off).

I think the whole "Intel monopoly" thing is going much better as I've noticed that nearly half(probably maybe 35-40%) the machines sold in retail stores are AMD based so it'll give consumers the option to purchase AMD in the lower to mid sector.

 

first: that thing is allready solved, it's now a software issue and developers have to adapt (it's not hard, but having to learn after tens of years of nearly-stagnation in how programs work, a.k.a. serial, a lot still have issues.. espencially gamedev. but valve has proven it's doable and quite easy, if you write clean code, that is.. (now that's hard for gamedevs)).

second: obviously this was just a scalability test. how many lawyers in parallel work how well to win.

 

I really miss my HD3200 I had in my HP tablet. Would be perfect with an intel chip in a 12in notebook. I probably would have kept it had that been the setup.

 

Intel also writes software you know....

Which was what I was getting at.

 

Perhaps they settled it, but Intel is still sunk in lawsuits.

EU lawsuit advance: http://www.reuters.com/article/tech...uters/technologyNews+(News+/+US+/+Technology)

 

Part of the settlement is a cross patent agreement that exempts AMD from having to pay royalties for x86 architecture for the next 5 years. That should add some $$ to the settlement total.

Intel also has access to AMD's patents which could include some Fusion stuff. I wonder if the arrangement also extends to ATI GPU patents.

 

I hope not on the ATI GPU patents. If so, then Intel would dominate the graphics market too, and nobody wants that.

 

I don't think it does. I believe it only affects AMD's patents on CPU's.

I still think AMD could have gotten a lot more out of intel.

 

They could have gotten more, but who knows...they are not in the best economical position either...