14 DAY TRIAL // The accusations filed by the Federal Trade Commission against Intel seem to have become the vehicle for rather heated statements on the part of the Santa Clara chip maker. Predictably, the antitrust settlement between Intel and AMD did not eliminate the tensions between the two. More recently, a published response has the chip giant stating that Advanced Micro Devices high ranking officials are disappointed by their own company.
Intel says that the only reason behind AMD's lack of success on the commercial desktop market was its lack of fully integrated platforms. Advanced Micro Devices only gained the ability to manufacture such products after it acquired ATI back in 2006.
At that time, Intel's platforms already included chipsets, microprocessors and network controllers, whereas AMD did not have any core-logic sets from 2000 to 2007. The Santa Clara giant even goes as far as saying that even AMD officials agree that, from an impartial standpoint, AMD would not be a good purchase.
“If you look at it, with an objective set of eyes, you would never buy AMD. I certainly would never buy AMD for a personal system if wasn’t working here. If I was a decision maker in a Fortune 500 company, I wouldn’t use AMD,” Henry Richard, executive vice president of marketing at AMD from 2002 to 2007, said internally, according to Intel.
“We were going to not be as competitive in the mobile space, even though we knew that mobile space was going to be critical. [AMD] was late with a competitive product in the mobile space,” AMD’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hector Ruiz, was reported to have said.
Intel explains that Mr. Henry Richard even went as far as naming AMD “pathetic” and a “cheap, less reliable, lower quality consumer type of product.”
Those interested in the official response from the Santa Clara chip manufacturer may download it from the FTC's website, or directly from here and here.