notarat
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All these are great info, but i want to focus at my previous question:
Legally, does AMD have any right to intervene into an agreement among 3rd companies such as NVidia and her AIBs ?
Just like you said before , "does Samsung has any right to guide the OEMs, just because it sells them some subparts for their products" ? Or just like i asked "Can AMD dictate to SONY or Microsoft what to do with their stuff, just because it sells them the GPU processors" ?
As i said, logically speaking, this hole GPProgram is down to AIBs to decide whether or not it's beneficial to them , and AMD doesn't have any right to intervene with agreements among 3rd companies.
Yes. AMD does have a legal right. Remember AMD vs Intel? AMD won that lawsuit in Japan, the US, and the EU. The courts found the agreements were made specifically to hurt AMD so AMD was able to legally argue the program was designed to be anti-competitive in nature. I don't see any difference here...
Party A and B are in competition.
Both use AIB's C D and E
Party A negotiates a deal with C D and E to specifically exclude Party B. That's anti-competitive behavior, according to the courts in the US, Japan, and the EU (Intel lost in all 3 countries)