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AMD is being sued!

Amd had a lawsuit slapped on them by Opti Inc. recently. This is a surprise as Intel is usually the target of such infingment suits. How this will play out only time will tell. Note AMD claims to have not seen the lawsuit and would not comment. Rumour is Microunity is suing AMD aswell, this co also sued Intel however they settled out of court. It much have been cheaper in the long run then a lengthy court battle. Read->

AMD K8L 65nm shown!

The 4x4 and 65nm k8L surfaces, but as expected it will be costly at first. 4x4 is more for the server and big buisness market right now. Dont get too depresed. A lot of its features will surely find its way to desktop eventually. L3 maybe promising along with the greater sse pipe size. Well just read these and you'll see what I mean. Read->

 

Ageia Lowers PhysX PricingAgeia Technologies, the world’s only designer of physics processing units (PPUs), has quietly slashed pricing of physics accelerators based on its PhysX PPU and also said Wednesday that during holiday season it would bundle $100 worth game along with every physics accelerator board.

From now on, when Asustek Computer’s and BFG Technologies’ physics accelerator boards are purchased from certain retailers - such as Mwave, Newegg and Zipzoomfly - they will include a special bundle that will contain three games: City of Villains, Bet on Soldier: Blood of Sahara and Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, which combined value is $100, according to Ageia. In addition, the bundle will also include a demo of CellFactor: Combat Training, a prequel to the highly anticipated CellFactor: Revolution game to be released later this year.


Nvidia, AMD accused of conspiracy to keep graphics pricing highThe allegation is that Nvidia, ATI and AMD conspired to manipulate graphics card pricing, while the filing seen by the INQ said the DoJ has demanded a heap of data going back to the late 1990s.......... The allegations cite sources saying that the price points of graphics cards are practically always the same - at around $500 for the top end stuff.

The allegation is the defendants and co-conspirators "have engaged in a contract combination, trust or conspiracy, the effect of which was to raise the prices at which they sold graphics processing units and cards to artificially inflated levels."