Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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I'm surprised that more haven't picked up on this. No self respecting AMD Fan would deny that Opteron is the future, so obviously IBM has no choice but to knuckle under to AMD's pressure, or else they're out of the game. AMD is clearly in the power position and they ain't taking no prisoners.


Exactly, as a matter of fact, I think that I should write a letter to the Department Of Justice right now to report AMD for their Monopolistic strong arm tactics. I was at a Tech Conference recently, and a distibutor of IBM products told me that an AMD Marketing person had called him, to "Question" him if he really wanted to sell Itanium products at all, and if so, then he suggested that maybe he might not immediately get the Opteron order he put in, seeing how he wasn't a Teir 1 Vendor......

Obviously a veiled threat. Of course, this distributor did not want to go on record with this information, but no doubt we now have ancedotal evidence of AMD's illegal (At least in the E.U.) business practices. I wonder if Mike Magee is interested in this "Evidence"?

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