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'Dirty tricks' or fair play by Intel in rivalry with AMD?
AMD's accusations
Many documents in the case - scheduled to go to trial in 2010 - have been kept secret under a court protective order. However, in portions of the suit made public, AMD accuses Intel of a broad array of abuses, including:
• Purposely designing Intel's compilers - programs it sells that translate software from independent vendors into a language machines can read - so that computers using AMD chips would suffer degraded performance "or simply crash."
• Offering a high-ranking Tech Data executive a $1 million bribe to stop doing business with AMD. When the executive turned the money down, AMD claims, an Intel representative responded, "How much would it take?"
• Pressuring Hewlett-Packard "to consider firing" an HP executive involved in a proposed deal in which AMD promised HP 1 million free chips to gain access to its business computers in 2002. Consequently, HP took only 160,000 of AMD's free chips.
• Withholding delivery of server chips that Compaq "desperately needed" in 2000 after Compaq did business with AMD, prompting Compaq Chief Executive Michael Capellas to stop buying AMD chips, saying he "had a gun to his head."
• Threatening Acer with "severe consequences" if it went ahead with its plan to promote AMD's new Athlon64 chip in 2003 while delaying payment of at least $15 million it owed Acer. As a result, Acer withdrew its promotions for the AMD chip.
Link:
http://www.mercurynews.com/valley/ci_10084746
Dit zijn toch een paar serieuze beschuldigingen.
@devilsprophet: Info van AMD over het 45nm proces:
http://www.amd.com/us-en/...s/AMD__45nm_Press_Q-A.pdf
http://www.amd.com/us-en/...m_Press_Presentation2.pdf
Blijkbaar wordt er nu geproduceerd met ultra-low-k interconnect dielectric, en later is er de optie om high-k metal gates te gebruiken. (is een optie op 45nm en nodig op 32nm)
Weet er iemand hoe het juist zit met de fabs van AMD?
Ik lees dat fab 36 momenteel omgeschakeld wordt naar 45nm voor mass productie in 2H 2008. En dat fab 38 een stand-alone 300mm fab wordt in 2009. Wat betekent dit voor fab 38? Is dit op 65nm, of wordt die ook omgeschakeld naar 45nm?