EU likely to fine Intel for anti-competitive behavior

[NJ5]

Darc Requiem said:

heruamon said:

NJ5 said:
@heruamon: Maybe you missed this post with the specifics of the deals Intel made:

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/post.php?id=2151200

Yeah, I missed that posting, and it's pretty damning, but should this then go thru a court case, and get it deliberated, since to be quite fair...this is as reported by the same EU regulators that are applying this unprecedented fine...so they are a bit bias, I would say.

Edit: After scourge the news for more info, I definitely think the EU had a basis to slam Intel with a fine, but because the fine so outstrips the violation, imho, you are kinda fixated on the amount, and not the charges.  There are two parties involved in these cases...Intel and the said parties, and amazingly, you see nothing against those companies.  Sure, Intel offered it to them ,but they took it...whereas other companies didn't, otherwise AMD would have never gotten ANY market share.  Subsequent to that time, AMD has put out a clearly inferior product, and they funny thing is Intel's Market share is increasing without these extensive rebates, not decreasing, based on sound engineering, not gimmicks.

I DO standby my forecastthat Apple is next...

Heruamon, Intel effectively limited the market share of AMD when they were putting out a superior product to Intel's chip line. This reduced the amount revenue and profit AMD should have been pulling in at the time. Which would effect the amount of money AMD had to invest in future chip lines.

 

Yeah, I think many people forget that AMD actually had superior processors at one point. Intel started having better performance again just a few years ago. Surely these anti-competitive tricks helped Intel get back on top.