Intel Charged by FTC; Will intel pay 1.25 billion to AMD?

[HellionDarklord]

the PDF is here


Under the terms of the settlement, Intel will pay AMD $1.25 billion cash within 30 days. Among other key items
(http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/2009/20091112corp_a.htm?iid=pr1_releasepri_20091112ra):

AMD and Intel both get patent rights in a cross-licensing pact;
Intel will give up any patent claims against AMD;
Intel will agree to adhere to business practice provisions;
And AMD drops all pending litigation against Intel.

This antitrust case challenges Intel’s unfair methods of competition and unfair acts or practices beginning in 1999 and continuing through today, and seeks to restore lost competition, remedy harm to consumers, and ensure freedom of choice for consumers in this critical segment of the nation’s economy.

Its monopoly threatened, Intel engaged in a number of unfair methods of competition and unfair practices to block or slow the adoption of competitive products and maintain its monopoly to the detriment of consumers.

There is also a dangerous probability that Intel’s unfair methods of competition could allow it to acquire a monopoly in the relevant GPU markets.
So that's why it is so difficult to find laptops with nvidia gpu's.

I bought an intel laptop and was sorely dissapointed with performance. Now I see that instead of putting forth energy making their products more appealing they decided to put energy into making other chipsete look bad.

These measures are intended to slow down developments in the relevant markets until Intel can catch up, and have had the effect of foreclosing competitive GPU products and slowing the development and widespread adoption of GP GPU computing.

GP GPU = General purpose GPU. take a look at parallel processing. CUDA:

NVIDIA® CUDA™ is a general purpose parallel computing architecture that leverages the parallel compute engine in NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) to solve many complex computational problems in a fraction of the time required on a CPU. It includes the CUDA Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) and the parallel compute engine in the GPU.

CTM (close to metal by AMD)

In November 2006, AMD kicked off the GPGPU revolution with the introduction of CTM™ (for "Close To Metal").

Does Intel have parallel processing architecture? I can't find anything definitive.

Just thought a boycott of intel would benefit all computing. And computer chip customers

HD

 

[ganzey]

this happened like 2 months ago, old news