AMD and Intel

[rwolf]

AMD is madly going after Intel for unfair business practices. Seems kind of brave considering they copied Intels x86 property. Imagine in a court of law trying to explain how you copied a competitors product and then they tried to shut you out of the market. How unfair is that?

 

[Skrying]

AMD is madly going after Intel for unfair business practices. Seems kind of brave considering they copied Intels x86 property. Imagine in a court of law trying to explain how you copied a competitors product and then they tried to shut you out of the market. How unfair is that?

AMD and Intel have a deal to give each other certain technologies. I'm guessing the x86 property could be part of this.

 

[mondoterrifico]

AMD is madly going after Intel for unfair business practices. Seems kind of brave considering they copied Intels x86 property. Imagine in a court of law trying to explain how you copied a competitors product and then they tried to shut you out of the market. How unfair is that?

What?
You seem to be conflating unfair business practices with contracts and reverse engineering.
And no need to imagine anything, Intel has lost in the past to the tune of ~1 billion dollars for trying to shut AMD out.

 

[arjan de lumens]

Seems kind of brave considering they copied Intels x86 property.

Intel got big very much BECAUSE they had AMD copy their "x86 property". x86 got big because of its presence in IBM PCs, and IBM at the time had a very strict two-source policy on every component - if Intel hadn't been able/willing to arrange for a second source (which happened to be AMD), then the x86-based IBM PC wouldn't have happened.