Parsing Subpoenas for AMD, Nvidia
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Neither company is saying much about a DOJ investigation into possible anticompetitive practices in the graphics chip market. But at this early stage, the tea leaves look ominous. In Epicenter.
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Tuesday&#39;s&#160;raid on Intel&#39;s Munich office&#160;by European Commission investigators marks the latest development in one of several antitrust cases that have dogged the world&#39;s largest chip maker for years. Here&#39;s a rundown of Intel&#39;s brushes with antitrust investigators and lawsuits around the world since 1990:
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AMD uses a technology called PowerNow to control power supply to the processor depending upon how much of the processing power is being used.
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Second time in less than a month AMD has been accused of patent infringement for the second time in less than a month. Having found itself on the receiving end of a lawsuit from intellectual property holder Opti earlier this month, AMD was this week threatened by MicroUnity Systems Engineering.â¦
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Companies say they'll comply with agency's probe into potential antitrust violations regarding graphics processors.
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Over the past six months, the usual strict hierarchies of the chip world have seen some rearranging. Perennial underdog Advanced Micro Devices (AMD:NYSE - news - research) has made impressive strides with
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AMD subpoenaed The US Department of Justice is investigating claims of anti-trust activity in the graphics chip and add-in card markets, it has emerged. AMD yesterday said it had been subpoena'd by the DoJ as a result of its acquisition of ATI.â¦
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With its new low-voltage Athlon 64 3000+ processor, &quot;AMD is essentially going up against the Centrino in the low-end processing market, where 64-bit technology is not that significant,&quot; says Illuminata analyst Gordon Haff.
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Delaware judge limits scope of anti-trust case Intel's lawyers will have their laptops searched at one less airport, after a US district judge limited the scope of AMD's antitrust action against the company.â¦
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Both GPUs built on TSMC's 110nm process, reportedly
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ASUSTeK COMPUTER ha annunciato la nuova serie di schede grafiche ASUS Extreme N6600GT, equipaggiata con GPU PCI EXPRESSâ¢ nativa NVIDIAÂ® GeForceâ¢ 6600GT, la prima compatibile con la tecnologia multi-GPU NVIDIAÂ® SLI (Scalable Link Interface) che
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Canada, US courts want a piece too SanDisk and its CEO Eli Harari have received grand jury subpoenas from the US Department of Justice for possible anti-trust violations in the NAND flash memory market.â¦
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Another day, another investigation New York state is joining the growing line to probe Intel's paperwork over charges of anticompetitive behavior against chip rival AMD.â¦
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Google said Friday that it plans to subpoena its search rivals Microsoft and Yahoo in order to obtain information that will help the company defend its book scanning project from a legal attack. Google was sued by both the Association of American Publishers and the Authors Guild.
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AnandTech have thrown up their Performance Preview for Nvidia&#39;s nForce4 SLI MCPs using a pair of GeForce 6800GTs and 6600GTs! Here&#39;s a snip.
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New York state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has launched an antitrust investigation of Intel, and on Thursday, his office served a wide-ranging subpoena on the company.Cuomo is investigating whether Intel violated state and federal antitrust laws by coercing customers to exclude its main rival, Advanced Micro Devices, from the worldwide market for PC CPUs (central processing units), Cuomo said in a news release.The subpoena seeks information on Intel&#8217;s pricing practices and possible attempts to exclude competitors through its market power, Cuomo&#39;s office said.(More to come.)
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In a move that was successfully kept secret, for the most part. AMD is making an unprecedented, near-term adjustment to its technology roadmap. As soon as the first half of next year, the company plans to introduce into the desktop CPU market a new line of Phenom triple-core processors, whose architecture was christened with the code-name Toliman just hours ago.