EU issues formal charges against Intel

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Intel violated antitrust laws.

These kinds of things take time to go through courts. Not about Intel's current practices. So back when Intel was doing their dirty deeds it hurt AMD. Who knows, AMD could have been in a lot better shape today if it wasn't for Intel's previous actions. Financially and possibly performance too (if they had the funds to put more into R&D to make better CPUs etc).
 
That's where my hatred for Intel was born back in 90s; when Intel was doing the arm-twisting of MB and OEM manufacturers, that people like us decided to keep the competition going by buying and supporting AMD and, for lack of the money to buy Intel's expensive Pentium; Intel came up with the Celeron (The poor man's Chips), which hanged and crashed twice, three time in the same session, solely to lure those of us away from AMD and back to Intel's mouse-trap.

That's also why I like to stay with AMD no matter how fast Intel chips may perform, under one condition; AMD must get up dust itself off and keep doing what they been doing and better come up with competitor chips.

Good Article.
 
In the [statement of objections], the Commission outlines its preliminary conclusion that Intel has engaged in three types of abuse of a dominant market position.

First, Intel has provided substantial rebates to various Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) conditional on them obtaining all or the great majority of their CPU requirements from Intel.

Secondly, in a number of instances, Intel made payments in order to induce an OEM to either delay or cancel the launch of a product line incorporating an AMD-based CPU.

Thirdly, in the context of bids against AMD-based products for strategic customers in the server segment of the market, Intel has offered CPUs on average below cost.

These three types of conduct are aimed at excluding AMD, Intel's main rival, from the market. Each of them is provisionally considered to constitute an abuse of a dominant position in its own right. However, the Commission also considers at this stage of its analysis that the three types of conduct reinforce each other and are part of a single overall anti-competitive strategy.
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Basically their rebates were tied to how much of a companies product line didn't have AMD CPUs. e.g. Sony used to make both Intel/AMD systems. But in the early 2000's they dropped AMD many suspect because of this.
 
the guy in the comments on the article said:
... but it seems to me there is a much more straightforward reason that AMD is hurting right now:

Core 2.

If you're watching a boxing match, and your guy is getting turned into pulp, it strikes me as a bit myopic to say, "that divorce is really hurting Joe right now." I'd say that getting beat the f- up is hurting Joe.

Whatever it's done in the past, and whatever the ramifications continue to be to this day... getting crushed by the superiority of Core2 is what's definite about AMD's pain right now.

Considering the unresolved nature of the court case (and the impossibility of deriving a false conclusion from false data*), I would categorize the harm to AMD as both hypothetical and indefinite.
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