Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Intel Strikes Back: the poison pill edition

It looks like Intel is trying to block the AMD/Foundry deal-- AMD and Intel cross license each others' Intellectual Property very heavily and they object. This would transition some Intel IP to probably be used by Foundry, and Intel and Foundry do not cross-license. I expect this to get a little legally ugly here, as Intel has the upper hand. If AMD pulls x86-64, that would really hurt Intel, but without x86, AMD is deader than dead.

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