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[News] [SOT] AMD Tries to Regain Health, Intel VP Dumps INTC (EU Antitrust Fears?)

  • Subject: [News] [SOT] AMD Tries to Regain Health, Intel VP Dumps INTC (EU Antitrust Fears?)
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:55:59 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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AMD to Offer $1.5B in Notes

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| AMD has been looking for ways to replenish its dwindling cash supply amid 
| intense pricing pressure from Intel, heavy spending on upgrading factories to  
| a more advanced chip-making process, and its $5.6 billion acquisition of 
| graphics chip maker ATI Technologies Inc.  
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070808/amd_debt_offering.html?.v=1

Intel Executive Sells Shares

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| A senior vice president of the technology and manufacturing group at Intel 
| Corp. sold 560,239 shares of common stock, according to a document filed with 
| the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday.  
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070808/intel_svp_insider_transaction.html?.v=1

AMD is now boasting support by all major platforms (Linux included) for
Barcelona. AMD is needed to stop a possible 'Microsoft of hardware' nightmare.
Intel already abuses whe[n|re]ver it can get away with it (links below).


Related:

EC says Intel influenced bids for computer projects

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| The third type of allegation, however, was new, and sounded like a variety of 
| predatory pricing. “In the context of bids against AMD-based products for 
| strategic customers in the server segment of the market,” the commission 
| press release said, “Intel has offered CPUs on average below cost.”   
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http://legalpad.blogs.fortune.com/2007/08/03/ec-says-intel-influenced-bids-for-computer-projects/


AMD Demonstrates First Graphics Processors to Feature Native DisplayPort 1.1

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| AMD has successfully tested a next-generation graphics processor with a 
| native DisplayPort 1.1 transmitter. 
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http://www.physorg.com/news105368972.html


Negroponte says Intel should be "ashamed of itself" 

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| He is furious that Intel's CEO Craig Barrett called the One Laptop a
| gadget. The Negroponte initiative is caught in the middle of a vicious 
| fight between AMD and Intel, he said.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39733


AMD chief condemns Intel 'abuses'

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| In 2005, after the Japan Fair Trade Commission found Intel guilty of 
| offering illegal rebates to Japanese PC makers, AMD filed an anti-trust 
| suit against its competitor in the U.S. District Court in Delaware. The 
| case has not been decided.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/06/21/amd_ceo_condemns_intel_abuses/


AMD: Intel Destroyed Evidence in Antitrust Case

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| In an unpublished statement to the U.S. District Court of Delaware,
| AMD alleges Intel allowed the destruction of evidence in pending
| antitrust litigation.
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http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6352


Video: Henri Richard comes out swinging at Intel during AMD press conference

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| [AMD's Henri Richard:] "I am sick and tired of being pushed around
| by a competitor that doesn't respect the rules of fair and open
| competition."
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=363


Testing Laboratory Challenges Intel Power Efficiency Claim

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| Intel's recent claim of power efficiency superiority over AMD is being 
| challenged by Neal Nelson & Associates, an independent Chicago area computer 
| testing firm.  
|
| [...]
|
| The test is a client server benchmark where world wide web transactions are 
| processed against a server configured with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from 
| Novell, the Apache2 web server software and the MySQL relational database.  
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/hardware/11054/testing-laboratory-challenges-intel-power-efficiency-claim


Investors sue Dell on payments from Intel: WSJ

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| An investor lawsuit seeking class-action status accuses Dell Inc. of
| improper accounting in its relationship with chip giant Intel,
| according to a media report published Thursday evening.
| 
| [...]
| 
| The suit alleges that Dell received at times as much as $1 billion
| a year in "secret and likely illegal" kickbacks in the form of
| "e-Cap" or "exception to corporate average pricing" payments"
| from Intel to ensure that Dell used no other chip supplier,
| according to The Journal.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/investors-sue-dell-payments-intel/story.aspx?guid=%7B400315B0%2DE375%2D4920%2DB300%2D784220BEFE35%7D&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo


Lenovo got financial help from Intel, claim 

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| Journalists on the title said Lenovo is being paid a "pretty
| penny" from Intel to use its chips.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37670


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| In 2005, a unit of Shenzhen Donjin countersued, saying Intel engaged
| in monopolistic practices.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070514/china_intel_settlement.html?.v=7


Intel's anti-trust memos started vanishing from the top

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| Chairman Craig Barrett, CEO Paul Otellini and sales chief Sean Maloney
| have appeared on a list of Intel employees thought to have deleted 
| e-mails possibly relevant to AMD's anti-trust lawsuit against its
| larger rival. The missing e-mails have thrust a livid state of mind
| onto AMD's lawyers who have very serious problems with Intel's
| rather lax document retention policy.
| 
| [...]
| 
| CEO Otellini appears to have been one of these troublesome employees.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/11/intel_tortellini_episode/

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