It's true. The European Union has thrown a new set of anti-trust allegations at Intel. Earlier this week, rumors swirled that the EU would spring into action, adding charges to a European Commission investigation against Intel that's been going since 2001. Now the extra charges have arrived, with EU regulators accusing Intel of three new bits of "abusive conduct" designed to wound AMD's place in the x86 processor market."First, Intel has provided substantial rebates to a leading European personal computer (PC) retailer conditional on it selling only Intel-based PCs," the EU said in a statement. "Secondly, Intel made payments in order to induce a leading Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) to delay the planned launch of a product line incorporating an AMD-based CPU. Thirdly, in a subsequent period, Intel has provided substantial rebates to that same OEM conditional on it obtaining all of its laptop CPU requirements from Intel."
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That's very anti-competitive, and illegal, so if true, Intel deserve everything that they get.
That's very anti-competitive, and illegal, so if true, Intel deserve everything that they get.
The problem is everyone ignores the IF part and just assume it wasn't just another AMD screw up that slowed down adoption of their chips.
That's very anti-competitive, and illegal, so if true, Intel deserve everything that they get.
I agree with the e.u. for a change.
If it is true, then who knows what will happen to intel, maybe a European ban.
If it wasnt for AMD we would still be reaching for the Megahertz sky on a single core, x86 CPU.
Funny that you should say anything about somebody lashing out at a company.
"CRAP! We spent all of Microsoft's money already! What's another successful American company we can target to refill our pockets?????"
Today we don't even offer any AMD cpu's, we caved to the pressure.
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