| | By Subhankar Kundu @ Thursday, March 19, 2009 5:11 AM
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| | Advanced micro devices (AMD) and Intel are locked in another legal battle over the chip making giant's claim that AMD breached a cross-licensing agreement over x86 processor technology.
 AMD India vice-president (sales and marketing), Ramkumar Subramanian said, “Intel’s action is an attempt to distract the world from the global antitrust scrutiny it faces. Should this matter proceed to litigation, we will prove that Intel fabricated this claim to interfere with our commercial relationships and thus has violated the cross-licence”.
Earlier this month, AMD and its partner Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC) established Global Foundries as a joint venture to manufacture microprocessors for AMD CPUs and for producing other chips.
But Intel alleged that use of equipment by Global Foundries for the production of x86 chips is a breach of agreement between top two chip makers over x86 technology sharing.
In October 2008, Intel had warned that AMD would get into trouble over Global Foundries.
Chuck Mulloy, an Intel spokesman earlier told the IT Examiner that the agreement between the two companies was not transferrable to a third party, it was confidential and could only be disclosed by both parties' consent. Nonetheless, Intel had 'serious questions' concerning AMD spinning off its chip making unit into a new company, yet further comments could only be made after Global Foundries had issued its prospectus. The licensing agreement would expire in 2010.
AMD has agreed to the Intel offer to make the terms of cross-licence agreement public. X
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