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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Jeff R who wrote (66192)7/20/1999 1:57:00 AM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (1) of 1585564
 
Re: "AMD and Intel had a technology exchange agreement. AMD
gave Intel the rights to a couple of chips, (.i.e Hard
Disk Controller and QPDM graphics chip). Intel refused these
chips and complained they weren't what they were asking for
and were not compatible with Intel's process. Later it was
found in court arbitration that Intel had purposely refused
the devices so AMD would not have enough points to claim
access to the 386. Subsequently. AMD went off and reversed
engineered the 386 in Austin Texas. AMD made the AM386 static
with lower power with a slightly higher frequency. "

In reality, AMD was so incompetent they were incapable of producing anything of value in exchange for the products they had received from Intel. Intel, after transfering their designs to AMD and watching AMD make 100s of Millions selling Intel designs, and at the same time returning nothing of value, simply got tired of carrying a deadbeat partner. Plain and simple. The Judge presiding over the artbitration case clearly stated that AMD had no one but themselves to blame, due to their own incompetence, for failing to provide Intel with marketable products in exchange for all the goodies they had gotten from Intel with nothing in return. The bottom line is, nobody likes a beadbeat partner. Intel simply got sick of giving away their property to someone who was incapable of producing anything of value in return, as the technology exchange agreement required.

To this day AMD has never produced a profitable processor of their own. The only thing they have ever made money on was stolen Intel designs. Deadbeats then. Deadbeats now.

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