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    #21
    Re: Intel

    lol and watch what happens when amd's bank goes kaput.... then everybody pays

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      #22
      Re: Intel

      I would not say so, AMD was in pretty dire shape
      They needed that money bad, and since (obviously since Intel paid) this was not just AMD being a bully like someone else said earlier

      We customers need AMD to have a good and healthy market, if there was only Intel I can guarantee you that the $1.2BN this settlement will "cost" us consumers in terms of higher CPU costs (from intel) will amount to nothing in a world where AMD did not exist and Intel had no competition (like in the early ninties)

      And who is to say in 2 years AMD is not back again with a better performing CPU thanks to this settlement money that is a better choice than Intel's equivalent?
      "The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it."

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        #23
        Re: Intel

        > You mean WE get to PAY that $1,250,000,000 don't you? Most likely at 4 to 6 times that amount.

        Without the settlement and Intel's agreement to a fair business practices, Intel would probably have made 10x 1.25B = 12.5B from consumers. And they'd have paid out the entire amount or more in antitrust fines to the Gubmint over the next few years. Now they pay only $1.25B, and it will help AMD stay alive and design better products.

        Yes, consumers pay, but they'll pay less and get better products now, since there will be healthy competition. Shareholders will earn less, and that's fine and indicates a maturing and competitive industry. Intel's stock isn't going back to $80 any time soon, and AMD's stock isn't going back to $40 either - both will have to work hard for it, and pray for an eventual recovery.

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