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Intel pays Advanced Micro Devices $1.25 billion in a settlement over AMD's assertion that Intel rewarded computer makers that used only Intel chips and punished those who bought from AMD. [29] 2011: January: Product: Intel announces the Sandy Bridge series of Core microprocessors to replace Nehalem. Sandy Bridge microprocessors start out as ...
In November 2009, Intel agreed to pay AMD $1.25 billion as part of a deal to settle all outstanding legal disputes between the two companies. [9] [10] [11]That week, Andrew Cuomo, then the Attorney General of New York, who had access to the 200 million documents in discovery and 2,200 hours of witness depositions from the private lawsuit, filed another antitrust lawsuit under similar ...
Intel demonstrates its Next Unit of Computing, a motherboard measuring only 4 × 4 in (10 × 10 cm). [11] October 4 TDK demonstrates a 2 terabyte hard drive on a single 3.5-inch platter. [12] October 26 Microsoft releases the operating system Windows 8. [13] November 18 Nintendo releases the Wii U in North America. [14]
That leaves rivals Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) fighting for second place. AMD has made more progress than Intel so far. AMD has made more progress than Intel so far.
Intel beat AMD to market by nearly four years, but AMD priced its 40 MHz 486 at or below Intel's price for a 33 MHz chip, offering about 20% better performance for the same price. While competing 486 chips, such as those from Cyrix , benchmarked lower than the equivalent Intel chip, AMD's 486 matched Intel's performance on a clock-for-clock basis.
Intel successfully countersued AMD which caused AMD's stock to collapse and nearly killed the company. [ 9 ] In 2000, Sanders recruited Héctor Ruiz , at the time the president of Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector, to serve as AMD's president and CEO, and to become the heir apparent to lead the company upon Sanders' retirement.
Intel releases the Pentium II processor, 233, 266, and 300 MHz versions. It has a larger on-chip cache and expanded instruction set. May 11 IBM's Deep Blue became the first computer to beat a reigning World Chess Champion, Garry Kasparov, in a full chess match. The computer had played him before, losing 5/6 games in February 1996.
In addition to the above chipset, ATI struck a deal in 2005, with CPU and motherboard manufacturers, particularly Asus and Intel, to create onboard 3D Graphics solutions for Intel's range of motherboards released with their range of Intel Pentium M-based desktop processors, the Intel Core and Intel Core 2 processors, the D101GGC and D101GGC2 ...