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[News] More Trouble for Wintel Still Ahead

CSFB Turns Thumbs Down on Intel

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| The chipmaker's stock fell on Friday after the firm downgraded
| its recommendation on the shares to underperform
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http://yahoo.businessweek.com/investor/content/jan2007/pi20070105_565771.htm

Every criminal gets time, but this one may not have been convicted (yet). See
references below.


Related:

AMD spells out what it wants from Intel 

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| The two companies sessions have "defined the universe in dispute".
| Intel has declined to produce documents that could show
| limitations on customers to buy chips from AMD, quotas for
| chip buying, and "other coercion, including threats of
| retaliation or retribution, for doing business with AMD
| (or not doing sufficient business with Intel)."
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36736


AMD claims key victory in Intel antitrust suit

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| AMD filed suit against Intel in June 2005, charging Intel with
| employing anticompetitive practices in the sale of PC chips.
| Intel has denied the charges.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7b4FC79547-9443-4262-BF1E-5AFC9FCDB046%7d&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo
http://tinyurl.com/ynfnkz


AMD says court seeks data from Intel in antitrust case

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| Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said a U.S.
| federal court had overruled Intel Corp.'s 
| objections in an ongoing antitrust litigation.
| 
| The court has ordered Intel to produce documents and other
| evidence bearing upon its "exclusionary conduct" outside
| United States, AMD said in a statement.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/061228/amd_lawsuit_intel.html?.v=1


Court tells Intel to hand over foreign documents in antitrust case

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| In June 2005, AMD filed a massive antitrust lawsuit against Intel, accusing 
| the larger CPU maker of abusing its dominant position in the worldwide PC 
| market to prevent AMD's CPUs from making significant inroads. The suit 
| alleges that Intel customers like Toshiba, Gateway, Dell, Hitachi, and 
| others agreed to exclusive deals with Intel in exchange for "cash payments, 
| discriminatory pricing or marketing subsidies conditioned on the exclusion 
| of AMD."
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061217-8436.html


Intel Plans to Close S. Korea R&D Center

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| In September, Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel announced the
| elimination of 10,500 jobs -- about 10 percent of its work force
| -- through layoffs, attrition and the sale of underperforming
| business groups as part of a massive restructuring.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070105/skorea_intel.html?.v=1





Intel inspired by and in cahoot with Microsoft...

Comes v. MS Antitrust Trial Begins in Iowa

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| Here's part of what Allchin said about how to deal with the competitive
| threat from Novell then:
|
| "We need to slaughter Novell before they get stronger....If you're
| going to kill someone, there isn't much reason to get all worked up
| about it and angry. You just pull the trigger. Any discussions
| beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while
| we pull the trigger."
|
| [...]
|
| Conlin used a variety of computer-generated illustrations,
| including one that showed 15 icons, each representing what she
| said was an illegal action taken by Microsoft in pursuit of its
| bid to become and remain a monopoly. The icons had titles like
| "exclusionary contract," "technical sabotage," "buying out the
|  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| competitition"...
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Jury Hears Microsoft Competition Suit

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| A judge on Friday told jurors they must accept as fact that a
| federal court found in 1999 that Microsoft holds a monopoly over
| computer operating systems and that it restricted computer
| manufacturers' ability to use competing systems.
|
| [...]
|
| She said she'll show that the company used its monopoly power
| to exclude competition and control prices and that it conspired with
| other companies to restrain trade, maintaining what she called a
| chokehold on software competitors and computer manufacturers.
|
| "It isn't illegal to be successful," Conlin said in opening
| remarks. "We applaud that. ... But you can't freeze out competitors
| and punish and retaliate against people who cooperate with
| competitors. Microsoft did all that and more."
|
| Conlin warned jurors that she would say some unflattering things
| about Microsoft and its billionaire founder Bill Gates, who
| serves as company chairman.
|
| [...]
|
| Conlin's first 3 1/2 hours of opening arguments delved deeply into
| computer industry history and how Microsoft fought off competitors
| attempting to design rival software.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/061201/microsoft_trial.html?.v=1


Microsoft's Dirty OEM-Secret

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| They are, in short the secret to Microsoft's success. And the word
| secret is to be taken quite literally: No OEM may talk about the
| contents of his contract, or he will lose his license, and (assumption)
| likely be sued for breach of contract as well.
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http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/10/23/13219/110


Microsoft 'killed Dell Linux' - States

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| The States' remedy hearing opened in DC yesterday, and States attorney
| Steven Kuney produced a devastating memo from Kempin, then in charge of
| Microsoft's OEM business, written after Judge Jackson had ordered his
| break-up of the company. Kempin raises the possibility of threatening
| Dell and other PC builders which promote Linux.
|
| "I'm thinking of hitting the OEMs harder than in the past with anti-Linux.
| ... they should do a delicate dance," Kempin wrote to Ballmer, in what is
| sure to be a memorable addition to the phrases ("knife the baby", "cut off
| the air supply") with which Microsoft enriched the English language in the
| first trial. Unlike those two, this is not contested.
|
| [...]
|
| Earlier memos described that it was "untenable" that a key Microsoft
| partner was promoting Linux. Kuney revealed that Dell disbanded its Linux
| business unit in early 2001. Dell quietly pulled Linux from its desktop PCs
| in the summer of 2001, IDG's Ashlee Vance discovered subsequently, six
| months after we heard Michael Dell declare his love of Linux on the desktop
| the previous winter.
|
| Compaq was also mentioned in other memos, with Microsoft taking the line
| that OEMs should "meet demand but not help create demand" for Linux.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/19/microsoft_killed_dell_linux_states/

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