Intel-AMD battle rages on: Tom Yager spent some time in Monterey, California last week at AMD's CTO Summit, and got an "unusually detailed look at unpublished products and plans." Alas, he's bound to secrecy on most of it, but he did come away with a few new insights into AMD's response to Intel's FUD on production levels. Oh, those patent woes: Oliver Rist files his own take on the Microsoft patent complaints a Intel-AMD battle rages on: Tom Yager spent some time in Monterey, California last week at AMD’s CTO Summit, and got an “unusually detailed look at unpublished products and plans.” Alas, he’s bound to secrecy on most of it, but he did come away with a few new insights into AMD’s response to Intel’s FUD on production levels.Oh, those patent woes: Oliver Rist files his own take on the Microsoft patent complaints and the news that Longhorn’s virtualization features (aka Viriidan) just hit the fan. Looks like you can have your Longhorn on time or with all features intact, but apparently not both. (And yes, given Longhorn’s cattle-themed code name, I could have made a castration joke here. I chose to take the high road…)Why open source matters: Some readers that say that “CIOs don’t care about open source.” Matt Asay puts a finer point on it: While the CIO may not care, that doesn’t mean they can ignore open source – mainly because the workers in the trenches are the ones that do care about open source, and they’re the ones using these technologies to get their jobs done. And if the jobs get done, that should please the CIO – right? (P.S. – Are you signed up to attend OSBC next week? There’s still time…) Technology Industry