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

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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 !!!

Intel just released a 64-bit processor for mainstream PCs on Monday, which is Intel’s latest Celeron D 351, the heir-apparent to the current Celeron D S775 processor series. Celeron D 351 is integrated with 64-bit processing technology (Intel named EM64T), whicle Celeron D S775 is only a 32-bit chip.

The news means Intel is a month ahead of rival AMD, which is expected to come out with a chip of the same capacity in July, 2005.
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Intel’s Celeron Goes 64-bit Too

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

Last week, the giant processor maker, Intel announced will be partnering with Apple to supply them processors beginning in mid 2006.

On Friday, June 10, 2005, Intel said they would collaborate on several areas in support of mobile WiMAX technology, including mobile clients, network infrastructure and market development. For mobile devices and notebook platforms, Intel and Nokia said they would work closely on both client and base station strategies to help deploy a WiMAX network infrastructure.

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“Even though we and the industry as a whole are at the early stages of discovery and development, the industry momentum is remarkable. To have innovators like Nokia working to bring WiMAX and other broadband wireless technologies to the masses is very encouraging,” said Sean Maloney, executive vice president and general manager of Intel’s mobility group.

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Intel & Nokia Work On Mobile WiMAX