Without much surprise, Intel announced to have initiated a legal action against Globalfoundries, the out-sourced manufacturing activities of AMD. Intel claims that the new entity uses without rights some of the licenses originating from agreement between Intel and AMD.
As a reminder, to avoid legal action for its monopoly on CPU, Intel agreed in the past to license to AMD some of its technologies related to CPU manufacturing. Santa Clara's giant considers that Globalfoundries is not directly linked to AMD anymore, and has no rights to make use of those licenses and related technologies. In other words, the technology transfer between AMD and Globalfoundries is not legal and valid according to Intel.
Globalfoundries is not competing directly with Intel anymore, but rather with the Taiwanese companies such as TSMC or UMC for on-demand chip manufacturing, however, any legal actions that could affect Globalfoundries would indirectly hurt AMD too. Let's hope that the judge will issue a balanced decision.
