Analyst Tim Luke at Barclays Capital is speculating that AMD and Intel could settle their contentious lawsuit before it gets to trial in March 2010. Both AMD and Intel would benefit by ending the lawsuit, which has cost each company millions of dollars in legal fees. For Intel, it also would help end some uncertainty at a time when the company is under scrutiny from regulators in the United States and overseas.
– Despite the wave of antitrust litigation crashing in on Intel, one analyst reportedly is predicting that the private lawsuit between the chip maker and rival Advanced Micro Devices could be ending soon.
In a research note Nov. 10, Barclays Capital analyst Tim Luke said
that a settlement would be b…