In the third quarter, Intel saw its dominance in the overall global chip market grow to 81.1 percent, while rival Advanced Micro Devices’ fell by 2 percent, to 18.7 percent.

With Intel’s history of innovation and low costs, is going after them really in the consumer’s best interest? AMD is considered Intel’s main competitor in the microprocessor arena, and this is not the first time the companies have gone head to head. In 2005, AMD sued Intel for violating antitrust laws. Most recently AMD was in the news for insider trading and low earnings, causing their stock to drop a dramatic 6% in October, 2009. And then emerges Cuomo’s movement to file suit against Intel. Seemingly AMD’s last ditch effort to extort funds from Intel, this could explain why the government is pursuing Intel now. People are left wondering why the government is going after Intel, when the cost of microprocessors and the computers that house them are lower than ever.

We just recently found out some rather good news, Ontario in its 40nm won’t be based on Phenom / Athlon K10.5 45nm shrunk core. Originally we were thinking that AMD will simply take its dual-core in 45nm and will shrink it to 40nm bulk process, but we found out that the dual-core in that product is going to be Bobcat, a low-power dual core.