EU likely to fine Intel for anti-competitive behavior

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Soleron said:

Faxanadu said:
Oh please.

Marketplace has rules. Company breaks rules. Marketplace then imposes a fine to punish company.

You rather want they cut the company off the market?

I'd like to see the x86 patents opened up instead of a fine. Currently all x86 makers have to have a cross-license agreement with Intel, which is skewed towards Intel holding all of the cards (e.g. AMD is forbidden to outsource manufacturing, sell out to another company, or be socket-compatible with Intel). So 99% of the consumer CPU market depends on Intel's permission to exist. That's a monopoly.

 

Most patents last 17 years.  How is Intel still enforcing the x86 patents?  Most likely they struck cross-patent deals with AMD.