AMD calls on Skype over deal with Intel

AMD calls on Skype over deal with Intel

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is currently indulged in a lawsuit with Intel claiming that the market leader uses its marketing power to discourage competition in the microprocessor industry. AMD has claimed that Intel gives big discounts and cash benefits to companies, which exclusively uses Intel processors in their hardware.

We recently heard another deal, this time between VoIP giants Skype and Intel, which resulted in some features in the latest Skype application becoming exclusive to users of latest Intel microprocessors. This was sad news for the AMD users and the company has noticed this incident.

AMD has now served Skype with a subpoena demanding documents related to its deal to make one feature in Skype 2.0 available exclusively to Intel users. As a result, Skype has now joined a long list of companies being targeted by AMD regarding their deals with Intel. Intel on their part has always denied that they are indulging in anti-trust activities. However, there are enough visible factors, which prove that Intel makes it hard for their partners to deal with AMD.

Skype let users of latest Intel microprocessors to make 10-person conference calls on their VoIP application. Users of AMD processors are limited to make just a five-person conference calls. Skype claims that this is because only Intel microprocessors are capable of handling such a performance-oriented task.

AMD disagrees with this philosophy and claims that Intel has given Skype incentives to limit the power of the software for AMD users. Skype is yet to comment on this latest news development.