Intel Corp (INTC)

[Windsock]

The outside legal expense for a patent law suit would be a lot less than for the huge antitrust case. Probably the expense would be in the range of $25 million a year.

But what choice does AMD have? It needs cash to stretch its survival for a few more years and it needs a foundry ticket because AMD does not have the funds to build a fab for the future. The License has a crystal clear foundry limit so the only option is to structure a pretense and give Intel the finger.

The antitrust legal contest has become an emotional vendetta for Hector and crew and they are not capable of making a logical decision to settle the antitrust suit in return for a waiver of the foundry limit in the Intel License.