Advanced Micro Devices Inc has won what could prove a decisive round in its long-running legal battles with Intel Corp when a jury late Thursday found that the Sunnyvale company did have the right to use the microcode in the 80287 maths co-processor under the 1976 second-source agreement between the two companies. Separately, Advanced Micro turned up the heat on Intel by saying that it now expects to ship 900,000 Am486 parts this quarter rather than the 700,000 it had targeted. With would-be Am486 users holding back to await the jury verdict, Advanced Micro’s shares jumped $6.375 to $29.125 on the news. Intel plans to appeal the ruling, which reverses an earlier jury verdict in its favour. That verdict was overturned and a new trial ordered when the judge hearing the case ruled Intel should have provided key documents to Advanced Micro.
