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To me it feels like the original fine may have influenced by that. It would have discouraged Intel from offering these rebates to OEMs, giving AMD a chance to s
by avanderveen 5y ago
To me it feels like the original fine may have influenced by that. It would have discouraged Intel from offering these rebates to OEMs, giving AMD a chance to slowly get back into laptops. At the time Intel's mobile CPUs were far superior, but the same could not be said for their integrated GPUs, but IIRC the rebates required that OEMs go full Intel (CPU, GPU, chipset, and WiFi).
- tarlinian 5y agoThis doesn't particularly make sense. You can't even use non Intel chipsets with Intel CPUs and integrated GPUs are inherently tied to the CPU. (In the case of the discrete GPU segment, Intel didn't even have an offering.) The only place where alternatives are even technically possible are in WiFi where there is no impact on AMD.
- wizzwizz4 5y ago> You can't even use non Intel chipsets with Intel CPUs There's no theoretical reason for this. Nobody makes them because they won't be able to sell them, apparently, but they could make them.
- monocasa 5y ago> You can't even use non Intel chipsets with Intel CPUs and integrated GPUs are inherently tied to the CPU. You used to be able to, but Intel cut off the rights to use their chipsets' interconnect. Before that point 'integrated on the chipset' was a valid way to do integrated graphics.
- avanderveen 5y agoThe last AMD chipset that supported Intel CPUs[1] was around the time of this fine. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_690_chipset_series https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_690_chipset_series