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[chipguy]

The only thing this will manage to do is make the 'droids even more rabid and passionate for their cause

And that in itself can backfire on AMD. Think about how
Mac zealots turned off many corporate and institutional IT
types in the 1990s and hastened Apple's marginalization
to some degree.

It's clear that AMD has been unsuccessful ramping the Opteron to the market share they wanted, but that's because they are trying to beat Intel at their own game by copying their marketing techniques, copying their branding techniques, and even copying their positioning.

I think AMD is scared ****less over platformization. They
saw how successful it was for Centrino and they are trying
to slow or disrupt Intel's plan to extend it to servers and
the desktop anyway it can. AMD can't possible match Intel
in offering the whole package in one seamless unit so a
PR oriented series of law suits is its desperate response.