4 ms·
Of course Charlie Demerjian has an axe to grind with Intel. He was the reporter who broke the news that Intel threatened Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers to
by guardiangod 9y ago
Of course Charlie Demerjian has an axe to grind with Intel. He was the reporter who broke the news that Intel threatened Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers to _not_ release motherboards for the then new AMD Athlon 64 CPUs. The manufacturers had to _leak_ this info to him in fear of Intel's retaliation ("Ops we have a shortage of north bridge chipsets, guess you guys aren't getting any chipsets allocation for the next three months.")
He was also one of the first reporters to report Intel's secret paymenst to Dell to not use AMD Athlon CPUs, that ultimately greatly limited AMD's ability to generate revenue to increase its production capacity at its fab.
Believe it or not, Intel acted like a mini-Microsoft back in AMD's Athlon heydays, and that pissed off a lot of people in the industry.
https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2005/06/5047-2/ https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2005/06/5047-2/
- coredog64 9y agoIs there anyone in the semiconductor industry that _doesn't_ have an axe to grind with Intel?
- guardiangod 9y agoProbably Qualcomm, but that's only because Intel's attempts were so pathetic (StrongArm and mobile Atoms?)
- FullyFunctional 9y agoIntel lost a lawsuit to Transmeta for similar nastiness [1] (of course the latter went out of business before the total could be collected). Charlie holds many grudges; he pissed NVIDIA off enough that they denied him access after which his been dumping dirt on them whenever he can, justified or not. "Semi-accurate" is an appropriate name. He's sometimes right. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta
- sliken 9y agoSimilar with Dec/Alpha. Amusingly they are suing Qualcom for doing the same thing to them in the mobile market.