Intel has posted a detailed, 25-page rebuttal to the antitrust complaint that the FTC filed against the chipmaker this past November. It can be paraphrased as: “We deny almost all of the charges, except for the charges that are bogus because the FTC doesn’t even understand the basics of the processor business.”
But much more interesting than the Intel rebuttal (which, like the FTC complaint, is eminently worth reading for educational value) is what some of the material in the document appears to reveal about the depth of AMD’s mismanagement over the past decade. Specifically, the filing quotes some 2004 comments from former AMD marketing chief Henri Richard, who had some surprisingly disparaging things to say about AMD’s processors in an internal memo:
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