[Russianhaxor]

Personally, i hope the two companies work it out. Because in the end nobody wants there to be one chipmaker.

Almost two months ago, we witnessed the open war of words between AMD and Intel, ending in Intel's press release citing that AMD's split to AMD and GlobalFoundries will lead to the termination of AMD's x86 license. Wording was not exactly what you could say, "in gloves":

"Intel Corporation today disclosed that the company has notified Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) that it believes AMD has breached a 2001 patent cross-license agreement with Intel. Intel believes that Global Foundries is not a subsidiary under terms of the agreement and is therefore not licensed under the 2001 patent cross-license agreement."


"Intel also said the structure of the deal between AMD and ATIC breaches a confidential portion of that agreement. AMD's breach could result in the loss of licenses and rights granted to AMD by Intel under the agreement."

The 60-day license deadline is set to expire on May 15th, 2009 - and with less than 48 hours to go, we have asked both Intel and AMD about an update to this cross-license dispute. Bear in mind that the statements given during March were openly hostile between the two - getting to the point where Intel could ask for injunction on sales of all AMD x86-based products, and AMD could block the sales of every Intel processor that contains AMD's technology.

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