AMD vs Intel, Intel Raided
"To achieve this, Intel designed the compiler to compile code along several alternate code paths. ... By design, the code paths were not created equally. If the program detects a "Genuine Intel" microprocessor, it executes a fully optimized code path and operates with the maximum efficiency. However, if the program detects an "Authentic AMD" microprocessor, it executes a different code path that will degrade the program's performance or cause it to crash.""
Update: Looks like some Intel offices just got raided!
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Does this whole suit seem like a big marketing plan to anyone else? I mean read through the document, it reads like a novel not a court filing. AMD wants the average person to be able to understand it and goes through the process of painting Intel as the big-bad-evil corportation.
Now, I'm not saying Intel didn't do anything of these things, but where's the DOJ on this matter? The Justice Dept. went after Microsoft for anti-trust, but they don't seem to be making a big deal out of Intel. Also, Japan's FTC basically gave Intel a slap on the wrist in their findings (no monetary fine). They basically said "Stop it, bad Intel."
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Next, the EU will force Intel to bring out a version of their chips without the Built in Hyperthreading functions, as it gives them too much of an advantage over the competition who don't have access to hyperthreading. Remember what happened to the media player stripped version of Windows which the EU forced Microsoft to put out? Yep.. nobody's buying it because it's idiotic.
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