Written by Nicolas Gridelet
Published on May 7, 2008

URL: http://www.behardware.com/news/lire/07-05-2008/#9630

AMD has undertaken new legal action against its long standing rival Intel. It adds to the lawsuit filed in June of 2005 in which the creator of the Athlon has since received some 200 million pages of documents from Intel and its clients.

On both sides, there is the usual rhetoric of Intel saying the CPU market is still competitive while its rival accuses it of excluding it (or practically) from the market. Either way, there was one interesting point in that AMD’s lawyers estimate that the Sunnyvale company has to more than double its market share (which was 13% at the end of 2007) in order to exist in the long run.

Without taking sides, we can wonder what exactly Intel means by "competitive market" given that the flagship processor in AMD’s line, the Phenom 9850 Black Edition, has performances that are inferior to those of the aging Q6600 and also given the respective market shares.

Otherwise, in other news AMD’s stock has risen roughly 8% (after a peak of 10% yesterday) following rumors circulating on the restructuring plan which should soon be announced. This may involve dividing the company into 2 or 3 entities, one handling production and the other(s) design.