Intel's worst nightmare

[enigma067]

From other stories posted on the web one can conclude that Intel is in big trouble.
This story is two years old but it does a pretty good job of explaining the situation.

Intel's worst nightmare
Dwindling market share isn't the No. 1 chipmaker's only problem, says Fortune's Roger Parloff. It needs to mount a fierce defense to AMD's epic antitrust lawsuit.

By Roger Parloff, Fortune senior editor
November 16 2006: 11:51 AM EST

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AMD's suit arrives at a critical moment in the long-standing blood feud between AMD and Intel, which have been fighting each other in court for most of the past 20 years. (At this point AMD is Intel's only meaningful competitor in the market for x86 chips.)

In 2003, AMD launched two chips, the Opteron for servers and the Athlon64 for desktops, that are widely seen as having marked technological advantages over Intel's offerings.

Though AMD's performance edge in those markets will be challenged as Intel phases in its new Core 2 Duo generation of chips, the interlude of technological superiority has given AMD an opportunity to change forever its status and reputation in the industry.

Each company incorporates this recent history into the idealized narrative it is telling in court. AMD says Intel stepped up its wrongdoing when it saw itself falling behind technologically in 2003. No longer able to win by playing fair, it played dirty. "

More at :
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/08/21/8383598/index.htm

 

[apache_lives]

bla bla bla fanboi get over it

 

[amdfangirl]

Wow the article is from 2006... seriously, talk about it!

 

[croc]

Looks like Thunderman has a competitor.... 'Intel to go BK 2q 2007...'

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Wonder how the lawsuits going?

 

[dattimr]

Honestly, that's a new low. No, seriously. Did you mean it, Enigma?

 

[dagger]

I guess back then AMD still have enough money to mount a lawsuit.

 

[SoiledBottom]

This just in

There's a guy named Hitler in Germany, this could be bad news for the free world.

Ray Croc is starting some sorta hamburger chain. I hope it works out for him.

IBM just got some little kid to write an operating system for them. That kid better watch his back so they dont take advantage of him.

 

[kg4icg]

see the things that can happen in less then 2 years. look what happens when you wake a sleeping giant, just ask the japanese back in 1942.

 

[JDocs]

Wow, higher than expected(already grossly profitable) profits.
Best mid(or one of the best with highest sales), laptop, single and dual socket processors...

I wish I was in this kind of trouble...

 

[Onus]

Please do not feed the trolls.


...or the drones.

 

[yipsl]

I guess back then AMD still have enough money to mount a lawsuit.

Old news, but the lawsuits are still wending their way through the courts, as is regulatory action against Intel. In a related vein, there's regulatory action against both ATI and Nvidia related to e-mails possibly showing price fixing, and a shareholder's class action suit against Nvidia involving how much they knew regarding failed graphics chips in notebooks (and rumored to also involve discrete GPU's).

Companies usually have the money for litigation and defense. Neither AMD, Nvidia or Intel are going down because of any of it.

 

[BaronMatrix]

The case won't be tried before 2008, because the discovery tasks will be monumental. AMD has already subpoenaed documents from more than 100 major industry participants, including Microsoft. For anyone to opine about the strength or potential outcome of AMD's case this early would be both presumptuous and foolish. Yet for anyone interested in business, it's hard not to be awfully curious about exactly what became of AMD's Japanese market share in mid-2002.