Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Intel and AMD, again on the brink of war


Intel and AMD, again on the brink of war, and most likely without the court that the conflict is unlikely to be resolved. But the fact is that in the distant 2001, the two companies reached an agreement on the use of certain technologies developed by Intel, x86 processors in production in factories AMD. But recently, the Green Team, as AMD is often called himself, has rid itself of its manufacturing capacity and handed them over to the new company - Globalfoundries.

This company was created with the Advanced Technology Investment (ATIC), to jointly produce chips. This solution AMD, we can say, Intel is not angry at the joke, as well as processor giant felt such a move a grave violation of the agreement on the licensing of certain technologies developed by Intel, from 2001. In an interview with a correspondent for Reuters, Sivell Bruce (Bruce Sewell), the chief lawyer of Intel, said that AMD does not have the right to transfer the right to use Intel developed technologies to third parties without the permission of the copyright, that is Intel. Now that AMD has 60 days to correct this "error", otherwise Intel would bring it to court. For its part, AMD said that it had not violated the terms of this agreement, and Intel has no right to simply cancel it. Apparently, AMD believes that it, too, is among the founders Globalfoundries, so the agreement is automatically extended, but with the Intel strongly disagreed.

According to analysts, Intel does not want to bring the case before the court and sought a court decision.