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Is Intel Acting to Kill AMD Spin-Off?

by linathael . Original by Lionel - 29/01/2009 09:09:32 CET - Source: XBitsLabs
One of the decision linked to AMD's reorganization is the creation of "The Foundry Company" including all CPU manufacturing activities. So, the new company will obtain all know-how, experience and patents from the previous AMD organization, including licenses from Intel obtained by AMD under the cover of anti-trust laws. And this is apparently a problem for Intel.
AMD considers that Intel is acting to block the creation of "The Foundry Company" by contesting the right for the new company to make use of those patents.
This is a quite complicated context, as AMD and The Foundry Company is the last step before Intel's monopoly for CPU manufacturing, but this is completely different regarding offers for engraving process. Indeed, with Intel and AMD, many other manufacturers in the world are able to offer engraving on-demand, such as TSMC, UMC or STMicroelectronics.
So, currently it seems that Intel would like to ensure that The Foundry Company will ONLY manufacture AMD CPU and will not diversify too much its activities for engraving on-demand, and potentially end-up producing components that could compete directly with other products from Intel (such as third-party chipset, etc.)

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