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[News] Wintel Profit Plunges 39%

Intel profit down 39% as price cuts, spending crimp margins

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| Intel Corp. late Tuesday reported fourth-quarter profit dropped 39% as
| the world's largest chipmaker cut prices and boosted investment as it
| attempts to beat back a challenge from smaller rival Advanced Micro
| Devices Inc.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/intel-profit-drops-39-price/story.aspx?guid=%7BF022C863%2D1C0B%2D4F8B%2DB0C5%2D1695AFFC6810%7D&dist=morenews
http://tinyurl.com/322onq

More competition => better price for us the consumers.


Related:

Henri Richard: AMD's bad guy

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| At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Richard, at a
| breakfast meeting, did his duty again. He said the Intel Inside
| program and other marketing promotions Intel has used over the
| years have killed profitability for PC makers.
| 
| "The industry was saddled with a very successful marketing
| program that sucked all of the profit out of the industry," he
| said. In China, PC makers can avoid these programs and "not
| become a hostage." 
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http://news.com.com/2061-13053_3-6148717.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
http://tinyurl.com/yf475k


AMD spells out what it wants from Intel 

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| The two companies sessions have "defined the universe in dispute".
| Intel has declined to produce documents that could show
| limitations on customers to buy chips from AMD, quotas for
| chip buying, and "other coercion, including threats of
| retaliation or retribution, for doing business with AMD
| (or not doing sufficient business with Intel)."
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36736


AMD claims key victory in Intel antitrust suit

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| AMD filed suit against Intel in June 2005, charging Intel with
| employing anticompetitive practices in the sale of PC chips.
| Intel has denied the charges.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7b4FC79547-9443-4262-BF1E-5AFC9FCDB046%7d&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo
http://tinyurl.com/ynfnkz


AMD says court seeks data from Intel in antitrust case

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| Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said a U.S.
| federal court had overruled Intel Corp.'s 
| objections in an ongoing antitrust litigation.
| 
| The court has ordered Intel to produce documents and other
| evidence bearing upon its "exclusionary conduct" outside
| United States, AMD said in a statement.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/061228/amd_lawsuit_intel.html?.v=1


Court tells Intel to hand over foreign documents in antitrust case

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| In June 2005, AMD filed a massive antitrust lawsuit against Intel, accusing 
| the larger CPU maker of abusing its dominant position in the worldwide PC 
| market to prevent AMD's CPUs from making significant inroads. The suit 
| alleges that Intel customers like Toshiba, Gateway, Dell, Hitachi, and 
| others agreed to exclusive deals with Intel in exchange for "cash payments, 
| discriminatory pricing or marketing subsidies conditioned on the exclusion 
| of AMD."
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061217-8436.html

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