New York attorney general files antitrust lawsuit against Intel

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Originally Posted by initialised

A fair market for CPUs may exist once windows supports CPUs other than x86.

The problem is, without x86 support, all your software no longer works. Sure, some of it will be easy to cross compile. But most, no. Not to mention gaming.

What we all need is for x86 to become a commodity item, anyone can make an x86 CPU. It's about damn time I say.

BTW, it's my understanding that quite a lot of Intel's x86 patents have expired, but the ones that have are too old to make it possible for anyone to make a modern x86 processor. I believe you would be able to make a 486 or something along those lines, maybe something a bit more modern. And even if you used expired patents, Intel would likely go after you anyway and try to crush you.

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Just saw this on S|A. I think things are going to go from bad to worse for intel.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/artic..._against_Intel

"I know the FTC is devoting a tremendous amount of time and effort to this,"Balto said. "I think we can look forward to the FTC filing an action that would be much more significant than those brought by AMD and the New York Attorney General."

And while the New York case is based on similar allegations and evidence to the suit filed by AMD in 2005, Balto said the FTC is looking at a different case -- a more current one.

"The New York case is a case about the past," Balto said. "The FTC case will be a case about the future. It will be focusing on dynamic competition, the impact on innovation, on how Intel's conduct ... is going to harm competition and consumers in the future, stifling the ability of new rivals to emerge..."

"It will take Intel's case from a whole different perspective and bring a whole new dimension of concerns," he said.

[SocketMan]

The state of New York got overcharged (ripped off) for their
computer purchases over the years - because Intel
cpus were the only ones available from the OEM's.
Intel paid OEMs (shame on you Dell,HP and to a lesser extent IBM) to not sell AMD cpu's - which had much lower
price points thus overcharging/ripping off anyone who
has purchased an x86 cpu over these years
(2002-2007 or so).


For those of you having trouble understanding
why Intel is in trouble:Read the pdf -it's all in there.

If I hire a hitman to kill someone, - it's not just the hitman
who's guilty.
I would be guilty as well - probably in any country.