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<I know the Civil Code & CCP rather well>
Not as well as you think that you do. Are you a graduate of the unaccredited YMCA School of Law?
<The damages will be substantial. I estimate, before punitives, $10bn>
Punitive damages are NOT available in an antitrust law suit. They are available for ambulance chasers (something within your level of expertise?) in personal injury cases.
Antitrust cases -- by statute -- provide for treble damages.
What the JFTC found was that Intel dropped its prices to compete with AMD. Sometimes prices were even dropped to equal -- but not go below -- AMD's prices.
http://www.asahi.com/english/business/TKY200503090124.html
"Because Intel CPUs were originally priced somewhat higher than AMD processors, the general policy was to lower Intel's CPU price to match AMD's."
Now there is some really anticompetitive conduct.
Homework assignment: Explain how LOWER prices for Intel processors harmed OEMs and their customers.
Another take on the antitrust suit: AMD is viewed as the whiney loser who can't perform. Those that can do; those that can't whine and issue Press Releases.
The timing of the filing of the law suit could well serve as an early warning signal for big Q2 losses.
Tom McCoy is Executive VP, not a legal hired gun.
Tom McCoy is a former Senior Partner in O'Melveny & Myers, the firm representing AMD in the antitrust action. He joined AMD circa 1994 as VP and General Counsel after serving as the lead O'Melveny attorney for AMD in the litigation wars with Intel in the late '80s and early '90s.
McCoy is now a hired legal gun of the in-house variety aka Sr VP Legal Affairs etc.
http://members.calbar.ca.gov/search/member_detail.aspx?x=71868
Intel responded by withholding HP's fourth quarter 2004 rebate check and refusing to waive HP's failure to achieve its targeted rebate goal
First AMD complains that Intel pays volume rebates. Then AMD complains that Intel fails to pay rebates when HP fails to achieve its targets.
Demanding payments for failure is now the the "HP way" I guess. Payment for failure has lond been the AMD way.
Everyone remember this concept the next time they fail to meet their annual bonus targets and their annual bonus pay
Here is some hat wear that should come in handy Doug.
http://zapatopi.net/afdb.html
A better choice is to consider the source and ignore any assertion you make Dougie.
We already know that the sun does NOT rise in the West, so why bother checking your "authoritative source"?
Way to go Doug. When you are caught telling bending the truth, keep on defending the indefensible. Never stand up like a man and admit you were wrong.
The jailhouse lawyers are running amok here.
There was no court case in Japan it was a preliminary finding issued by a government agency much like the FTC in the US. The next step would be a hearing where Intel could present evidence and argument. It did not have that opportunity before the JFTC.
Intel chose to accept the finding and end the matter. Microsoft chose to take the finding to the next level and challenge the issues raiised.
Second, the JFTC was an administrative law or civil matter as is the case with the FTC in the US. Using concepts from criminal law such as No Contest is abosolutely ridiculous.
Third the legal system and law in Japan is quite different than in the US. Drawing idiotic analogies with US law does not lead to a true uunderstanding of what the JFTC did in Japan.
So price competion is an an antitrust violation? The practice of offering a price discount for purchase of your product is pro-competitive. Lower prices to the OEM mean lower prices for the consumer.
Do you expect Intel to offer rebates for the purchase of AMD products? What total nonsense.
If you buy our stuff here is a $20 rebate. If you buy AMD's stuff go see them for a rebate.
The Turdion launch was paper only except for a few actual parts that are being tea bagged around for demos.
The idea that 64 bits is twice as good as 32 bits never did fly for AMD any moree than the idea that a laptop needs more than 4 GB of memory.
An Intel Assembly and Test plant in India is quite possible but a fab is highly unlikely in my opinion. The media has often confused the two facilities in the past.
What kind of dual-core parts was AMD showing over at the Motel 6 around the corner from IDF?
No silicon was in sight but there were lots of PowerPoint slides. Just so you are aware, silicon parts generate more revenue than paper parts.
AMD reported a "fourth quarter net loss of $30 million, or $0.08 per share"
In your opinion Doug, is this a 100 watt performance or a bonfire.
Good old Doug has been sniffing too much of the Magic Green Paint (tm) that he uses to adjust reality for AMD.
AMD reports a loss -- AGAIN. Yawn ??
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~93398,00.html
Nocona running away with the 64 bit x86 market
In the meantime, AMD reports a loss for Q4 and dim prospects for Q1. Droid fantasies about AMD superiority need a review.
But not to worry, AMD is doing real well on "Momentum" per Hector Ruiz and crowd. Shareholders on the other hand prefer earnings.
I believe my criticism was valid
Your belief is not correct and is based on false assumptions
The RedX was Carter's idea and it was a pretty lame effort. It was one of the early trademark happy efforts of Intel.
The Intel Inside program came straight from Andy Grove and was given to Carter to implement. The early efforts to promote Intel Inside were very amateurish because Carter had no experience in consumer marketing. Eventually, the sophisticated concepts used by consumer marketing experts found their way to to the Intel Inside program. Carter was smart enough to turn to the outside experts for help
It's a DRY HEAT!
An acetylene torch has a dry heat too.
Some years back they had to close the Phoenix airport to airline traffic because the temp reached 122 degrees. The big jets were sinking into the asphalt taxiways and the take-off tables did not go that high.
How about the always difficult Arizonians?
Another obvious answer is that the Weather Channel exhausted its needs for print servers and chose IPF servers for the big jobs.
It really bums you out that the 64 bit Xeon sells 3x the total units of Opteron in a fraction of the time. And well it should.
The number of AMD desktop systens is also near or exactly zero.
Desktop systems do not ship with Windows 64 as it is not available.
Please list the apps that Cray has ported to Opteron.
While you are at it, what is your guess on when Cray will deliver its first production system?
The real magic of Centrino is that Intel and IBM went around to the operators and got them to solve the interoperability issues that existed with 802.
Intel also used lots of Centrino promotion $$ to grow the availability of hotspots. It is not an accident that all those airports in the US rolled out hotspots in public areas at complete with Centrino banners at the same time as the Centrino launch.
The creation of a wireless infrastructure greatly increased the demand for 802 capability in laptops. Wireless capability quickly became a must have feature in laptops instead of an option. Yes, Intel filled much of the demand but all sources benefitted from Intel's work in developing the infrastructure as the pie became bigger.
A deal that makes a lot of sense would have Intel fab stuff for nVidia -- Intel has the capacity. But that will never happen because of Intel's false pride.
If Intel was smart enough to figure out that nVida would rather chase the 80% market instead of the 15% market, and only has has the resources to chase one of the markets then the result would be different.
TSMC does fab nVidia chips. nVidia also had a deal to with IBM to fab chips but that deal may have fallen through because of IBM's poor performance
Second, a cross-licensing agreement means that Intel got some technology as well. I wonder what it could possibly be....
The cross license is only an exchange of patents.
The companies also signed an agreement for Nvidia to license Intel's front-side bus technology, allowing Nvidia to offer its nForce graphics technology on Intel-based computer systems.
This separate agreement is an exchange of technology, nForce graphics to Intel and Intel FSB to nVidia. One result is that nVidia is now enabled to make chipsets compatible with Intel processors.
One way to view the purchase of shares by Intel is a tax free distribution of capital to the shareholders. The share repurchase raises the stock price allowing shareholders to have shares with a higher value. The higher value is not taxed until the shares are sold.
Lets take a look at Q3 net income.
Intel $1.9 Billion
AMD $42 Million
That is a ratio of 44. Looks like Intel is doing something right. And this does consider the fact the AMD is a welfare queen who pays little in taxes.
If AMD earns $42 million a quarter how long does it take to earn enough to build a $2 billion fab? It takes Intel about one quarter to earn enough to build a fab.
Maybe "conductor" discharged once too many times and was grounded.
Bingo !! The conductor is in jail for a time out.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/profile.asp?user=45591
AMD readies Athlon 64 price drop
Help us out. What does this do for ASP when you don't have any new high priced models in the picpe?
higher than expected yields
That sure is a nice "problem" to have
Droids are really dense. The concenssus expectation was that earnings would increase from 0.9 per share to about 0.14. The AMD release says that earnings will be up Q over Q but not as much as expecteed.
The warning suggests that earnings will be about 10 to 11 cents a share. Hint: that is less the the 14 cents expectation, even if earnings are "up".
It always amazes me that AMD has to wait until a week after the end of the quarter before it issues it earnings warning.
Modding? I was not aware you were a fan of the late '60s, early '70s. Do you still have any bell bottom pants
http://www.chezgrae.com/modsquad/
According to many fans the NX capability of A64 was going to deter substantially or perhaps even eliminate virus attacks.
Guess that did not work according to forecast
http://tinyurl.com/5bdj8
First virus emerges aimed at AMD 64-bit processors
MANHASSET, N.Y. — Symantec Corp. on Tuesday (Aug. 24) said it had discovered the first "proof-of-concept" virus that targets AMD's 64-bit processors.
Dubbed Shruggle, the virus is similar to Rugrat, another proof-of-concept that in late May put Windows' 64-bit operating systems in its sights.
"Shruggle is a fairly simple proof-of-concept virus," said Oliver Friedrichs, senior manager of Symantec's virus response team, "to show that the AMD platform is just as susceptible to attack as any other platform."
Experiments have scientific controls and statements of conditions.
What you have provided are a couple piles of garbage.
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Belkin has a "pre-n" wireless router now available on the market.
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2004/08/11/cx_ah_0811tentech.html
The original link works but it goes to a page that states:
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The article was formerly available for viewing when the original message was posted. The question is why the article is now concealed.