EU slaps Intel with three more antitrust charges

[Foxrac]

EU slaps Intel with three more antitrust charges
by Nilay Patel, posted Jul 17th 2008 at 8:34PM

Man, the EU is really not too fond of Intel, is it? Adding to all the other antitrust charges filed against the chipmaker, the friendly grey suits at the European Commission have slapped on an additional three: paying a "leading European retailer" not stock AMD products, giving incentives to PC makers to switch to Intel chips, and paying an unspecified company to delay the launch of an AMD-based product. For its part, Intel is reacting like it always does when the Europeans get prickly: by steadfastly denying everything. Intel has eight weeks to file a formal response, but as with all of these cases, we wouldn't expect a resolution any time soon.

[Thanks, Ricky]

EU slaps Intel with three more antitrust charges - Engadget

 

[Foxrac]

Damn to EU, who would hell care about stupid AMD, AMD sucks ass.

For me, Intel isn't really antitrust, AMD isn't doing well in recent years and more PC makers switch to Intel only like Sony, Dell and Apple (only from PPC to Intel). :roll:

Happy Intel user for 10 years.

 

[darkage]

Most time, I use Intel since 1977. Once, I tried AMD.

 

[darkage]

31 years ago, my first computer was Poly 88 Kit. Not remember which one 8080 or 8008 Intel.
One year later, I added 8 inches floppy disk drive.

 

[Foxrac]

31 years ago, my first computer was Poly 88 Kit. Not remember which one 8080 or 8008 Intel.
One year later, I added 8 inches floppy disk drive.

I googled it and it's 8080A.

Oh interesting, my first computer was Macintosh LC (pizza box) in 1993 and it was 68k, just 1 year before Apple switched to PPC but LC and Performa don't switch to PPC until 1995/1996, it had been replaced by iMac in 1998.

What kind of OS that you using for first computer?

 

[purplecatty]

31 years ago, my first computer was Poly 88 Kit. Not remember which one 8080 or 8008 Intel.
One year later, I added 8 inches floppy disk drive.

It look like a power backup system to me. J/K. I've never seen ugliest computer in a plain case.

Catty

 

[purplecatty]

EU slaps Intel with three more antitrust charges
by Nilay Patel, posted Jul 17th 2008 at 8:34PM

Man, the EU is really not too fond of Intel, is it? Adding to all the other antitrust charges filed against the chipmaker, the friendly grey suits at the European Commission have slapped on an additional three: paying a "leading European retailer" not stock AMD products, giving incentives to PC makers to switch to Intel chips, and paying an unspecified company to delay the launch of an AMD-based product. For its part, Intel is reacting like it always does when the Europeans get prickly: by steadfastly denying everything. Intel has eight weeks to file a formal response, but as with all of these cases, we wouldn't expect a resolution any time soon.

[Thanks, Ricky]

EU slaps Intel with three more antitrust charges - Engadget

Nothing new to Intel. AMD did sue Intel for excessive marketing and not letting AMD to compete and too many pc have Intel base while smaller portion of PC are AMD. Right now, AMD is suffering financially. They may go out of biz or sell it to other company.

I will soon be jumping to Intel bandwagon, sorry AMD.

Catty