without a doubt. I agree on both. The settlement wasnt something hat dirk did on his own and BD had to play a part in this.
-As far as the $$$ in the settlement, ppl only started complaining about how small the cash was after they seen how big nvidias settlement was. Nvidias was huge cause of patents/licenses agreements included. These we intellectual properties that intel payed a hefty price for cause they thought they couldnt live without such property and was willing to pay. Its not like AMD was ripped off or got less money on the same deal. Its really nothing like that!
AMD got $1.25 billion lump sum payment in November of 2009, while nVidia settled last January for $1.5 billion over 5 years(with the first payment occuring in January of this year) so if you factor in present value of nVidia's 5 settlement then AMD actually got more money than nVidia.