As the AMD sued Intel case continues, here is an update to the antitrust lawsuit.

AMD has won a motion to serve document preservation subpoenas against computer makers, retailers, distributors and small system builders almost immediately after filing the motion Friday, July 1, 2005, as part of its claim that Intel is violating the antitrust law and put pressure on their vendors to use its x86 processors rather than AMD’s. In other words, AMD is granted to right to view third party’s documents, including their vendors’ communication logs and documents.

It is no doubt, the use of such documentary evidence is expected to play a key role as AMD attempts to prove its antitrust suit in the District Court of Delaware.

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The motion sought a judicial order permitting AMD to “preserve relevant evidence that is in the possession of specified third-parties.” The company said its lawyers will now “engage in discussions with 30 third-parties in an effort to implement the order so as to preserve evidence while imposing on them as little an administrative burden as possible.”

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AMD Allowed To See Third-Party Documents

In an expansion of the anititrust law suit started early this week, Advanced Micro Devices filed two suits against Intel in Japan seeking more than USD$50 million for alleged anticompetitive acts.

AMD filed the claims through its AMD Japan unit on Thursday, June 30, 2005.
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AMD Takes CPU War To Japan

AMD (Advanced Micro Devices Inc.) says it will try to speed up the process of its antitrust lawsuit against Intel Corp. and break what it claims is a chokehold on the corporate desktop market.

AMD officials said on Tuesday, June 28, 2005, that they would like to bring the case to trial in 18 months – the same amount of time it took the government to bring its case to trial against Microsoft Corp. in 1998. That would put the trial sometime in late 2006 if AMD is successful in its efforts.
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AMD Wants Settlement By Late 2006

Dear all,

I’ll try my best to deliver the latest breaking news on this interesting AMD Sues Intel case in coming days. Stay tuned !!

Updates from sources saying AMD will have to show thousands of e-mail messages as proofs to the antitrust complaint against Intel, including emails from its key partners if needed.

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“There is going to be a lot of ‘he said, she said’ in this case,” Charles Diamond, a lawyer at O’Melveny & Myers and AMD’s lead outside counsel said, noting that AMD’s legal team is asking its potential witnesses to begin securing e-mail and other correspondence.

Attorney Diamond said AMD initially based its complaint on some 80 interviews between AMD and its partners and customers. AMD’s legal team said it will now use the “period of discovery,” where companies may be required to submit corporate data as evidence, to support their claims in this case.
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AMD – Intel Lawsuit Continues …

This is no joke, dude !!

When I come across this news, I was like “Oh Ow, this finally happens !”.

AMD (Advanced Micro Devices), the world’s No.2 maker of computer microprocessors, said Tuesday, June 28, 2005, it had filed an antitrust lawsuit against Intel Corp., the world’s largest maker of chips, in U.S. federal district court for the district of Delaware accusing Intel of unfair competition, which limited market share growth of AMD.

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The antitrust complaint against Intel Corporation was filed under Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act, Sections 4 and 16 of the Clayton Act, and the California Business and Professions Code.

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AMD Sues Intel !!!

On Friday, June 10, 2005, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) executives said at a meeting with financial analysts in New York that they plan to deliver a package of security, virtualization and lower-power processing to its AMD64 platform by next year, plus a new core, faster Hyper Transport and DDR3 support by 2007.

The following are the brief product road map that I extracted out from the source:-

Server

In 2006:
• Add its Pacifica virtualization technology and Presidio security technology into Opteron
• Begin shipping with Hardware RAID 5 technology and Serial SCSI, in addition to PCI Express 2 and a fault-tolerant I/O

In 2007:
• Add multicore capability, an L3 Cache and I/O virtualization.

Desktop

In 2006:
• Add its Pacifica virtualization technology and Presidio security technology into desktop processor
• Deliver dual-core processors with support for DDR2 memory, enhanced graphics technology called Aero Glass and lower-power performance.

In 2007:
• Add new core to the desktop processors, as well as DDR3 support and larger caches.

Mobile Processor

In 2007:
• Introduce WiMax wireless support and six-hour battery life to the vendor’s Turion 64 processor