I hope so... If AMD suddenly go out of business we will all suffer for it. Just to think intel will ask 2000% more for their next line of cpu's and they will be 20% slower...
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Intel pays AMD in legal settlement
Staff Reporter
Sapa-AP | 12 November, 2009
Intel Corp. is paying $1.25 billion to Advanced Micro Devices Inc., its largest rival in the market for computer processors, to settle all antitrust and patent suits, the companies said Thursday.
Intel said it has agreed to abide by a set of "business practice provisions." In return, AMD is dropping suits in the U.S. and Japan, and withdrawing complaints to antitrust regulators worldwide.
AMD has been complaining to regulators for five years that Intel has broken antitrust laws to limit AMD's market share.
In May, the European Union fined Intel a record $1.45 billion, and last year, Korea's Fair Trade Commission fined Intel $18.6 million. Intel is appealing both rulings.
In 2005, Japan's Fair Trade Commission found that Intel violated antitrust rules there. Intel accepted that ruling without admitting wrongdoing.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission also is investigating. Intel, based in Santa Clara, California, owns about 80 percent of the worldwide microprocessor market, while AMD in nearby Sunnyvale has most of the rest.
AMD shares soared $1.29, or 24 percent, to $6.61 in premarket trading. Intel shares fell 7 cents to $19.77.
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Out of this settlement come four major things for AMD:
$1.25 billion in cold, hard cash.
Intel will stop doing things that they and AMD agree they shouldn’t be doing.
The right to not have to produce x86 CPUs in-house. AMD can go fabless.
The right to have their x86 processors fabricated anywhere of AMD’s choosing.
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Follow the link for more reading on the matter, AMD has scored a massive win with this.
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So christmas is coming and I want to buy some new hardware for my rig. Specifically I am thinking of buying and AM3 Mobo and and get some DDR3. I am confused because all the Asus AM3 mobos seem to come with only 4 slots, whereas I am sure the Intel i7 Mobos come with 6 slots. Someone please explain to me what is going on?
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GreyWolf - i7 (1366) uses tri-channel memory, hence 6 slots, whereas AM3 still uses dual-channel. I know that the Intel X58 also only has 4 memory slots, but don't ask me why.
Mystical_Titan wrote:GreyWolf - i7 (1366) uses tri-channel memory, hence 6 slots, whereas AM3 still uses dual-channel. I know that the Intel X58 also only has 4 memory slots, but don't ask me why.
Thanks for the help m8, and I sort of get that.
Can you tell me why this is? Does AMD just not have the tech yet? do they plan to introduce it later? Is there a performance discrepancy between dual and tri channel?
Sorry for all the questions but I just realized this now and am confused.
"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist that black flag, and begin slitting throats."
- H. L. Mancken
