Intel's antitrust hearing denied

Intel's antitrust hearing denied

By Justin Robinson
Feb 27, 2009
Tags: Intel | Antitrust

Intel denied chance to defend themselves orally.

Intel have been accused by the European Union (or EU) of dodgy practices, specifically against AMD.

We had a look at this issue last month, where Intel was purportedly "slipping cash to OEMs who agreed to slow launch plans for AMD based PCs", and a lot more unfavourable behaviour.

Now though, the EU has denied Intel the chance to plead their side of the case verbally, demanding that they supply all the documents needed for evidence in a physical form before they can start the discussion.

Intel even went so far as to ask that AMD be pressured into revealing evidence to prove that Intel wasn't doing their bullying, but it's not particularly likely that that extra info will be given (after all, AMD must enjoy being on top every now and then - especially when faced with Core i7).

It's an interesting case, and if the allegations do prove to be true against Intel then we could potentially see a very bad result for Intel at the end.

Head over to arstechnica to read a little more on the issue at hand.

http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/News/1 [...] enied.aspx

So let's see... EU court is going to use the same bias it used against Microsoft on Intel.

Going back to watching my exterior house paint fade ... seems more exciting.

I dunno, but I'm sure Intel pulled some really sketchy stuff back in the Athlon 64 era.

But as pastit said, AMD won't see a dime, it'll all go to the lawyers and the governments.

This is at least the 5th country now to fine Intel for "dodgy practices". Not to mention at least 3 Universities, MIT, and Transmetta have all sued Intel for copyright infringement and won.

You would think a huge company like Intel could actually design its own processors instead of stealing their ideas from someone else.
Whats even more amazing is little AMD is still able to come up with processor designs that actually can compete with them.