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Intel absolutely tried to drown AMD in the 2000s. The fines are warranted.

• fbdab103 3y ago
  I do wonder - in a parallel universe where Intel had not played dirty - would AMD have naturally risen on top? More sales -> more revenue -> more R&D -> better products. At the very least, if AMD had been able to maintain competition for longer, would we have been stuck at 2/4 cores for so long? Still struggling to make ECC RAM mainstream?
  • mjevans 3y ago
    AMD Might have even kept their own fabs... Honestly the damages should see compounded inflation applied.
  • panick21_ 3y ago
    AMD by the end of the 2000s was beaten and broke. And by 2009 AMD was so down in the dumbs that they settled the lawsuit with Intel on arguably not favorable terms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Micro_Devices,_Inc._v._Intel_Corp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Micro_Devices,_Inc._v.... We have to remember that Intel went all in on Itanium and it was AMD who made 64bit happen. They absolutely kicked Intels ass on performance and price for quite a while but were not able to leverage that. So yes, the future would have been quite different.
  • wmf 3y ago
    AMD has been ahead of Intel for the last five years or so but they haven't captured the market share that they likely "deserve". Path dependence and marketing really work.
  • sokoloff 3y ago
    Is ECC RAM “mainstream” even now?