AMD and Intel fight will get dirty, fast (by Charlie)
... What's immediately obvious is that this is going to be a public fight, a very nasty public fight. AMD's complaint reads like a TV 'news' show itself - very entertaining with only enough legalese to satisfy the requirements. The opening salvo is meant to reach a wide audience through accessibility, and I think it succeeded. The newspaper advert and the Japanese legal action are meant to keep the headlines rolling. It wouldn't surprise me to see a few more filed in the near future when interest starts to wane. ...
But, curiously, the Japanese suit is probably the most important case to watch. AMD is suing for $50 million, a relative drop in the bucket. In this case, the money claimed is not that important.
What is important is that Intel has already been investigated and so there is already a lot of paperwork relating to its alleged behaviour in Japan. This has not escaped AMD's attention.
AMD appears to believe that it is doing more than putting the boot into Intel gratuitously half a world away, but that it has a vulnerable point in that country.
If it can win its case against Intel in Japan, AMD can use this as a lever in the US case. Meanwhile the EU antitrust case continues.
To sum up, nothing is proven, there is no public evidence, and we have nothing concrete to go on. Nothing has been decided, no evidence has been presented, and it will probably be at least a year before anything substantial happens.
theinquirer.net
The article also contains a link to the definition of a monopoly:
monopoly
n. a business or inter-related group of businesses which controls so much of the production or sale of a product or kind of product as to control the market, including prices and distribution. Business practices, combinations and/or acquisitions which tend to create a monopoly may violate various federal statutes which regulate or prohibit business trusts and monopolies or prohibit restraint of trade. However, limited monopolies granted by a manufacturer to a wholesaler in a particular area are usually legal, since they are like "licenses." Public utilities such as electric, gas and water companies may also hold a monopoly in a particular geographic area since it is the only practical way to provide the public service, and they are regulated by state public utility commissions.
dictionary.law.com
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