Founded by a posse of Italian gigolos, Anal Molesting Devices (AMD), also known as African Made Devices, started whoring out microchips in 1978. They first gained notoriety from selling x86-cloned CPUs. Intel whined about it and sent AMD to court. The judge ruled that since AMD was reverse-engineering their chips, they could continue selling them. Intel then put a vendetta on AMD's head. The war was on. Only, instead of spreading FUD like any decent company would, Intel began breaking the legs of OEMs who offered computers with AMD chips.
So what did AMD do? They cried like little sissies and accused Intel of being a monopoly. The litigation war is on.