Theraindog writes "AMD's former manufacturing tribe opened for vocation last week as GlobalFoundries, but the spin-off may run afoul of AMD's 2001 cross-licensing agreement with Intel. Indeed, Intel has formally accused AMD of violating the agreement, and in jeopardy to terminate the company's licenses in 60 days if a resolution is not found. Intel contends that GlobalFoundries is not a division of AMD, and thus is not covered by the licensing agreement. AMD has fired back, insisting that it has done nothing wrong, and that Intel's threat constitutes a trespass




roget's ii: the new thesaurusmain entry:sacrilege
part of speech:noun
definition:an act of disrespect or impiety toward something regarded as sacred.
blasphemy of the deal. At stake is not only AMD's ability to build processors that use Intel's x86 technology, but also Intel's ability to use AMD's x86-64 tech in its CPUs."

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