AMD sues Skype

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

from http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-6044365.html

 As part of its ongoing antitrust case against Intel, Advanced Micro
Devices on Tuesday served Skype with a subpoena demanding documents
related to its deal to make one feature in Skype 2.0 available
exclusively to Intel users.

The legal filing joins a long list of subpoenas AMD has filed in
search of evidence that Intel has used its dominant market share of
x86 PC and server processors to prevent AMD from winning business with
certain partners. Intel has denied those accusations, and the
companies are preparing for an antitrust trial that promises to reveal
loads of details about the inner workings of the PC industry.

AMD is now focusing on a feature in Skype 2.0 that enables the ability
to make 10-person conference calls only with Intel dual-core
processors. Users with AMD dual-core chips or single-core chips are
restricted to hosting five-person conference calls because only
Intel's chips offer the performance necessary to host the 10-way call,
according to Skype.
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Right, Intel outperforms AMD _thats_ the reason, :-)

-JP

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