Allen
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Joined: Oct 1999
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US$1.4 billion at stake
Intel is still contesting the landmark US$1.4 billion antitrust fine from the European Commission, which in May 2009 found it had abused its dominant position in the market for x86 processors.
In 2009 ruling the Commission, the EU's top antitrust authority, found that between October 2002 and October 2007 Intel sought to exclude its main competitor, AMD from the x86 processor market. It granted exclusivity rebates to four PC and server manufacturers, Dell, HP, Lenovo and NEC, the Commission found...
I wasn't paying attention. I thought they paid up. But, no. Their actions cost AMD Billions -- back when AMD CPUs were better than Intel CPUs -- so, Intel effectively paid folks to NOT use AMD. Dell's entire profit for one year was claimed to be the "payoff money" -- that is, Dell products on their own were not profitable that year.
