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When did AMD got bailed out?
by guardiangod 4y ago
When did AMD got bailed out?
- pclmulqdq 4y agoWhen Intel kept settling lawsuits with them for large sums of money to avoid being broken up. These generous settlements kept AMD alive.
- FatalLogic 4y agoBut that's not a bailout, it is compensation for harm that Intel had caused AMD by anti-competitive behaviors
- pclmulqdq 4y agoSettling for 1/10th those amounts years later (after the lawsuits look like they are going badly) would compensation for anticompetitive behavior. Settling early for the full price (or more) is a bailout.
- Retric 4y agoLawsuits aren’t limited to the exact damages, Intel settled early to reduce the risk of a massive loss in the future. It’s important to realize the lawsuit could easily have survived past the point where AMD failed as a company. Just as patents get sold off so too can potential damages from lawsuits.
- pclmulqdq 4y agoThey explicitly told people that they settled early (and generously) to avoid antitrust risk. Intel could have bankrupted AMD with the process. They chose to pay them a lot of money instead. Why? A bailout.
- Retric 4y agoThey said that due to good marketing rather than admit wrongdoing, but being a monopoly isn’t illegal. In fact they likely qualified as a monopoly at the time.
- guardiangod 4y agoCompensation for blackmailing OEMs is now called a bail out. You think Intel would settle all those lawsuits if Intel did nothing wrong?
- pclmulqdq 4y agoI think that given AMD's balance sheet at the time, and the state of the lawsuits, they would have allowed them to run their course for a lot longer. Giving your competitors generous settlements at the beginning phases of a lawsuit is not usually good practice.
- newsclues 4y agoThat’s like saying if I give you back the money I stole from you, I generously bailed you out. Not the same thing at all.
- ahefner 4y agoAMD got bailed out when they transferred IP to China for a paltry few hundred million dollars.