Salaries of Attrition

"AMD said that it had only 13 per cent of the x86 CPU market at the end of 2007, "less than half of what it requires to operate long-term as a sustainable business.""

Cutting Ruiz's salary would double their sustainability then? :)

"Including likely appeals, this long running case might drag on five more years."

Intel can afford to drag the case out over years. AMD cannot. This is just a study in risk vs reward on the shady deals of Intel (and probably all companies') sales reps make with vendors. I've known a few sales people that would try the hard sell approach, and force vendors into a lock in with their product. Swag and gifts aren't uncommon, and those things can take many forms that don't easily equate to dollars and pounds sterling. :)

Cheers,
John

Quality x86 chips!

Back in 2005 when the court case was filled and covers the alleged period before 2005, I believe AMD saying that they had superior products is true.

Until 2006 with Core 2, their CPUs were far superior of anything Intel had. From desktops to servers. And still in server enviroment dominate the market.

It's suprisingly back then advertising Pentium 4 3Ghz as powerfull computer while AMD had the 64bit series out!!!! Anyone who knew about the market was laughing. But people believing the crap advertising bite the hook.

How's this going ?

So does this look in favour of AMD ??

If AMD would loose this trial, what then, will they have to pay for the trial and then deal a huge sum of money to intel and become bancrupt ??

Or could AMD affoard to loose this trial ?