AMD claims that Intel has agreed to pay $ 1.25 billion (approx. EUR 840 million) to abandon all its trials on its anti-competitive practices or disputes over intellectual property.

The end of antitrust trial

The agreement between the two companies of all ongoing trials. This means that AMD will give up his pursuit in the United States and its two actions in Japan. He also withdraws its complaint to international authorities to regulate markets. This does not however mean that Intel has more lawsuits. Indeed, Santa Clara is growing appeal with the European Commission has fined 1.06 billion (see "Intel responds to European Commission) and is the subject of 'A recent proceedings by the State of New York (see "New York filed a complaint against Intel")while the U.S. Department of Justice also thinks conduct its own investigation.

New start in relations Intel-AMD

However, this agreement greatly relaxes the pressure on Intel as the main instigator of the trial being retired, provided that the firm adopts new business practices. AMD has not only received money, but insurance will no longer offer Intel processors cheap in exchange for his exclusion by the assemblers. Intel will also stop to write the code as a compiler used to slow the performance of a program running on a processor green.

Finally, the two companies agreed to exchange various patents for the next five years. This eliminates the ongoing trial involving swaps and license allows GlobalFoundries take advantage of Intel technology. This ad has had the merit of making the jump action that AMD has gained 22% in early morning, while that of Intel fell by 6%.This agreement puts an end to a struggle of five years by bringing AMD to Intel's business practices in the public eye and help finance green giant whose debts are around $ 3.6 billion (approx. 2.42 billion euros).