More Intel Illegal Dealings

[Hard Ball]

http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=947

This lends much more credence to the claim that Skype artificially fixed the table in Intel's favor with NO technical reason at all. Which may show that what Intel claimed to be code specifically written to run on DC Pentium machines nothing other than a bold faced lie, such as quoted here:

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,39020336,39251483,00.htm

Intel approached Skype with its plan to optimise code on its chips for Skype's software so users would have a good experience while hosting conference calls, Crooke said. In recent years, Intel has increasingly touted its software development resources as a competitive advantage over AMD, which also trails Intel in the marketing budget category.

Other x86 processors obviously will not come with the same optimised code found on Intel's chips. Intel and Skype announced a partnership at the Intel Developer Forum last August to make sure Skype's products would run well on Intel's chips.

And we all know the inevitable result of this Intel act of anti-competitive behavior:

http://www.smartofficenews.com.au/Commu...=/Communication/Industry/News/L6X2F4E4

 

[starwars7]

interesting, very interesting

 

[Vegitto]

Good find, man!

 

[Unkno]

just another reason to buy amd.....just imagine if intel wins and amd is out of business...there would be no reason for intel to advance in technology as fast...just take a look right now, intel barely updated their technology thinking that amd cannot catch up (until the athlon series...)

 

[atybimf]

Hmmm.

 

[Furen]

The reason to advance tech is so people replace their computers, otherwise we'd keep our PCs for longer. I do think that the price for CPUs would increased if AMD suddenly went away, though.

 

[Furen]

The reason to advance tech is so people replace their computers, otherwise we'd keep our PCs for longer. I do think that the price for CPUs would increased if AMD suddenly went away, though.

 

[Viditor]

Originally posted by: Furen
The reason to advance tech is so people replace their computers, otherwise we'd keep our PCs for longer. I do think that the price for CPUs would increased if AMD suddenly went away, though.

And the reason for drinking decaf is so you don't hit the button twice... (j/k)

 

[Furen]

whoa, I didn't even notice I double posted... stupid opera (yeah, I'll just blame the browser).

EDIT: Now that I take a closer look... there's two minutes in between my posts.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Thanks Hard Ball, I saw that earlier but you beat me to posting about it. This entire Skype deal reeks of anticompetitive behavior. Good thing AMD has already introduced this matter into their case against Intel.