Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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Third party damages

The important thing that has come out is that AMD's customers and would-be customers can also get damages - treble damages - for Intel's anticompetitive actions. It will take a bit of time for them to realize but not too long. HP will already be onboard on that. Via too, and the mobo makers.

Interesting tack the Intel people are taking. They are arguing the MSoft FTC case, and the 1998 case, based on monopoly status or lack thereof. I can see Otellini now screaming at his legal team "WE WON BEFORE, WE'LL DO IT AGAIN!" and a timid voice from an inhouse lawyer "but Mr Otellini, sir, it isn't quite the same this time, er, we have an itsy-bitsy problem if you don't mind me saying so, sir, er let me try to explain . . ."