Let’s Get It On!!

Well now it looks like the court is just going to keep on being interesting. It seems that AMD, an underdog CPU company I have been rooting for for years, has filed an antitrust complaint against Intel. (Having the underdog win in business usually keeps competition going, since competition is what makes capitalism work. Without it we have to regulate more, and we now how good the government is at regulating things properly.) Anyone who follows this stuff will say that it’s about friggin’ time. It’s interesting that this occurs while AMD is actually taking significant portions of market share from Intel. It’s also interesting that this happens a few weeks after Apple confirmed that Intel will begin supplying their processors in a year. It seems from the breakdown of the charges posted at Anandtech and the discussion at Arstechnica that AMD may indeed have the facts and witnesses to back this up. It’s also occurring at a very good time to force Intel to watch their Ps and Qs when dealing with other companies right now. AMD has another manufacturing facility coming online in a few months. This is timed right when AMD’s production capability will rise dramatically. Currently AMD sells all their chips. With Intel having to watch it’s butt, AMD may be in a very good place to leverage their new production capacity and better price/performance ratio. If the US system doesn’t do anything, the EU seems to have sharper teeth as of late. Looks like the fireworks may have started a little bit early this year.