AMD's case against Intel thus far
Ars Technica has published an article that describes some of the possible outcomes of the antitrust lawsuit that AMD filed on Intel last year. AMD is doing its best to try and prove that Intel did indeed prevent companies from using AMD CPUs. If AMD successful, companies that currently only use Intel chips may begin to start using AMD products in the future. Ars Technica reports:
This could lead to lower prices for computers, particularly those using high-end chips. However, as companies like Dell are already free to use threats of leaving the Intel roost to gain lower component prices, the savings for the consumer will probably end up being fairly modest. In the long term, however, healthy competition in the x86 processor market requires that both Intel and AMD are able to compete on a level playing field. The antitrust trial will, in theory, help make that possible.
The article also highlights some of the successes and processors AMD offered after Intel sued the company over a dozen years ago: bringing 64-bit computing to the x86 market, K5, K6, K7, Opteron and Athlon chips. If you're looking for some more background information about the lawsuit filed last year, please read the coverage at Ars Technica and CNET.
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