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fatslob-:O on 22 August 2017
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Pemalite said:

Disagree.
Lots of companies settle out of court, because court is expensive and can be drawn out... And the PR can potentially be damaging to a brand.

Intel was Anti-Competitive because they were locking AMD out of the OEM market.
And because Intel locked AMD out of the OEM Market... AMD wasn't able to capitilize on their significant technological advantage they had over Intel.

The reason why AMD settled out of court was because they got a better deal on settling outside of court rather going through the trial LOL ...

AMD wouldn't have been able to prove much more in damages that Intel inflicted on them since their production volume was still low in comparison to Intel's ... 

If AMD was only able to produce 50K CPUs over the period Intel started their anti-competitive practices then Intel would only pay that much worth in damages ... (If AMD had huge supply chains then things would've arguably been different.)