Intel's worst nightmare

From other stories posted on the web one can conclude that Intel is in big trouble.
This story is two years old but it does a pretty good job of explaining the situation.

Intel's worst nightmare
Dwindling market share isn't the No. 1 chipmaker's only problem, says Fortune's Roger Parloff. It needs to mount a fierce defense to AMD's epic antitrust lawsuit.

By Roger Parloff, Fortune senior editor
November 16 2006: 11:51 AM EST

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AMD's suit arrives at a critical moment in the long-standing blood feud between AMD and Intel, which have been fighting each other in court for most of the past 20 years. (At this point AMD is Intel's only meaningful competitor in the market for x86 chips.)

In 2003, AMD launched two chips, the Opteron for servers and the Athlon64 for desktops, that are widely seen as having marked technological advantages over Intel's offerings.

Though AMD's performance edge in those markets will be challenged as Intel phases in its new Core 2 Duo generation of chips, the interlude of technological superiority has given AMD an opportunity to change forever its status and reputation in the industry.

Each company incorporates this recent history into the idealized narrative it is telling in court. AMD says Intel stepped up its wrongdoing when it saw itself falling behind technologically in 2003. No longer able to win by playing fair, it played dirty. "

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Wow the article is from 2006... seriously, talk about it!

Wonder how the lawsuits going?

I guess back then AMD still have enough money to mount a lawsuit.

see the things that can happen in less then 2 years. look what happens when you wake a sleeping giant, just ask the japanese back in 1942.

Please do not feed the trolls.


...or the drones.

The case won't be tried before 2008, because the discovery tasks will be monumental. AMD has already subpoenaed documents from more than 100 major industry participants, including Microsoft. For anyone to opine about the strength or potential outcome of AMD's case this early would be both presumptuous and foolish. Yet for anyone interested in business, it's hard not to be awfully curious about exactly what became of AMD's Japanese market share in mid-2002.