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Great for the duopoly. Maybe not so great for companies getting locked out of the market (like Nvidia).

• sireat 17y ago
  Also Via is probably left out in the cold. Good news for AMD stockholders(stock is already up 20%+).
  • wmf 17y ago
    VIA/Centaur settled a patent lawsuit with Intel a few years ago and got a 10-year license.
    • rbanffy 17y ago
      Let's hope more and more free and open-source software make x86 compatibility a need of the past.
• roc 17y ago
  Yeah, I can't help but think this new cross-licensing agreement contains clauses to prevent AMD from sub-licensing. e.g. to nVidia. Why else would Intel give up so quickly and completely? Clearly they're getting something out of this that's worth at least 1.2B to them.
  • cookiecaper 17y ago
    Maybe Intel saw something worse coming down the line from the courts. I know that the EU's fines on Microsoft have certainly set them straight; within a few weeks of the levying of billions in penalties, Microsoft had a sudden change of heart on the default browsing modes in IE8 and released thousands of pages in additional format specifications, etc.
    • GrandMasterBirt 17y ago
      Yea getting hit by anti-trust laws can be damn costly to a company.