EU fine Intel 1.6B euros

w00t !!

A bit more detail: http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/13/technology/intel/

You beat enigma and thunderman to posting this.

Serves them right, their business practices were disgusting. Too bad AMD doesn't get a cut, they could do with the cash.

It's a joke that S.Korea fined Intel for 21 million dollars, that's chump change for them.

That's weird, Slashdot reports it as 1.06B not 1.6

http://news.slashdot.org/article.p [...] &art_pos=1

Now all we need is for every company who went along with this to be fined as well with the proceeds used to compensate AMD for lost sales.

But i'm so happy there!!!

EU greedy? Another fanboy in denial. Talk about greed, Intel did everything it could to keep AMD from selling cpu's, illegally, which is ultimately caused AMD's near collapse. Intel must have been pretty scared of little AMD.
Now AMD is on the comeback with its own platform thats selling like hotcakes and GPU's that are technologically superior to their only competitor, Nvidia.
Imagine how scared they are now! 1.65 billion is quite a chunk, probably completely negates any i7 sales since its release and more.
Hopefully the US slaps them with a suit now.

Scared?

Please stay tune for the scenes from the next episode, Intel files its first appeal...

owned.

Intel deserves the fine, but my only problem with this is that EU is just gonna pocket everything, they should at least award damage recompensation.

The EU is greedy when all that money is going to THEIR pockets and not AMDs pockets. Or do you think the EU is getting its just rewards to make itself happy?

So first MS, now Intel next up: Google. Lets see how much the EU can shave off of them.

Either way if you read the reports Otelinni states there is evidence that the EU doesn't want to use. he claims it helps their side. If it does then why would the EU not want to look at it? Possibly to keep their hefty fine? Who knows.

As I have said before, it would be cool if we could get all the documents, contracts and emails to look at instead of listening to the EU who does have some special interests in the case (AMD FABS in Germany...).

Right suit, wrong time. When this suit was filed in 2001, AMD had a superior product for a superior pice BUT couldn't get in the door with most major OEMs because of Intel's black-ops division.. There was corruption, anti-competitive practices and old fashioned strong-armed tatics on Intel's part back then that kept AMD from gaining even more market share.

AMD then fell victim to bad timing and worse management.

One Intel got it's chit together and started producing better chips. Not as elegant or well designed as AMD's but that didn't matter, brute force uber alles.

Two, AMD management suddenly became brain dead. Mistake after mistake in product release in over-zealous promotion of inferior product you name it. This was a double hit because everytime they failed to measure up the Intel spook boys flooded forums and offices to poor even more dirt on.

Three AMD forgot that its easier to get on top than to stay on top. They had a great 3 year run where their Athlon chips waxed Intel butt like lunch but they failed to work on their second act and hence had no answer for the Core 2 Processor.

Four, AMD bought ATI, the right move and the wrong time. Making themselves cash strapped for development after having woken the sleeping giant.

These things have more to do with AMD's current state of affairs than Intel dirty tricks, but that doesn't mean they didn't happen.

Da Worfster