Intel to FTC: We Didn't Do Anything Wrong

Ok, I just fell out of my chair! I knew this was coming....


Stay tuned for rebuttal from FTC

Intel is innocent. They just said so. Everybody can move along now.

Also:
"Boohoo. We didn't screw AMD over when their processors were better than ours (aaah, the pre Core 2 Duo years).
It will cost the taxpayers millions of dollars WE could have extorted from them with a new netburst-like ripoff.
Competition is bad, the FTC sucks, the consumers' interest (and my houses in the Caribbean) are clearly better served by an Intel Monopoly."

Intel: Ok AMD we are sorry, you can have some pie.
AMD: Thank you.
FTC: CAN I HAS PIE TOO?!

Shame on you Intel, I hope they stick it to you. You were very very very bad by giving companys like Dell, Gateway, Acer millions of dollars if they choose to only use your processers in all the high end PC's. Not only did you violate federal laws, you made it nearly impossible for consumers to get the Processor they wanted with the PC they wanted which i think a Class Action Lawsuit should also be filed. When it comes to fair competition you are as bad as bad can be, i hope they punish you very very badly.........

I think anything that helps other companies compete with intel is good for the marketplace.

Competition breeds innovation--monopolies stagnate technological growth.

^someone wants to give them a spanking..

It's a good thing Obama can't be held accountable for his choice of FTC chairman, or his aggressive stance on anti-trust legislation, or anything else for that matter, otherwise this might reflect poorly on him.

Intel is dead on. The FTC is trying to crate new laws with this lawsuit. But who can Intel turn to to defend them? This is what the Obama administration wants: More American companies becoming dependent upon the government.

Is spellcheck really that hard to use? I mean maybe it wouldn't be as important in the body of the article, but in the tagline? really?

FTC is just being dumb here.

but really, intel is the leading company in cpu's, it is a little hard on them to file a case after a case for them. I did not like the actions they did to AMD forcing oems to buy only their cpu's.
in my opinion, until they are not forcing others to do shit, they can innovate then sell their products at any price they want, it's not their fault, it's the others that cannot compete.
I hope ftc's case drops.

I hope Intel pays dearly for their monopolistic practices and the ground for competition becomes more even after this.

This is a sad day for Intel fanboys everywhere. Too bad. =)

NYTimes has a more informative article regarding this lawsuit than TH bloggers (big surprise)

great news i say.and what about their krap prices for CPU's maybe they are price-fixing us all.

Intel is going to jack up the price on their processor lineup to make back the money lost in the law suites.

Whats next, "We Only Paid AMD $1.25 Billion cause we felt sorry for them"

Well - so much for seeing Intel prices come down.

Yeah, elel, Intel's prices aren't high because they're money-grubbing bastards, no sir, it's because they get fined when they break the law....

A price range of $250 to $1000 for what is an identical CPU with just a higher multiplier? Clearly the $250 part has a decent margin, what's the margin on the $1000 part, since we know it didn't cost any more to make?

Agree with 'Glorian', FTC just wants part of the pie.
FTC is lame. They should be doing something more productive.

I'm glad that Intel is getting paid back for what they have done to AMD and to the Consumers. I know Tom's get's a kick back from Intel. I read in AMD forum that Tom's banned some members on the subject: EU regulators levied a record 1.06 billion-euro ($1.55 billion) fine against Intel and ordered the company to stop using illegal rebates to thwart competitors.

Al Capone to Federal Government "I am just a businessman that's all".

You don't know squat about Tom, Tom doesn't even own this website anymore, it was sold over a year ago to a group of buisness people, so get your facts straight before you fill these blogs will lies and assumptions. And for the Record this website has always been fair to AMD, if people got banned it was probably because they were being like you on here spreading a bunch of lies.

According to the news reports, the FTC is not asking for any monetary damages (i.e., no fine against Intel). So all this is, is just the FTC formalizing the agreement Intel and AMD already made, when the judge gets through with it in September..

Doh another law suite against Intel Dammit now I will never get my shiny new i7 hex core cheap any time soon way to go FTC you rock nott!! lol

in other news Apple today said they were going to start selling hardware cheap like everyone else so they don't look like greedy buzzards anymore oh wait that was on the comedy network channel nevermind lmao

whole post = sarcasm in case no one noticed

Here's a good summary of Intel's douche-baggery:

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipse [...] spx?i=3690

So, apparently, like anybody with a brain figured out years ago, Intel has had a hand in rigging synthetic benchmarks, which is why they always favor Intel, even when Intel doesn't win in real life.

Also, they make reference to Intel rigging their ICC compiler. Of course, you'd expect Intel's compiler to favor Intel CPUs, but they went so far as deliberately crippling AMD's CPUs by disabling SSE instructions. Surely, plenty of big companies use ICC, so when you see AMD losing real-world benchmarks, it could just be that ICC was used.

Sounds like Intel forgot to drop a few money bags in FTC's Christmas stocking.

lol FTC is going to lose. Intel acted within the boundaries of US Law. The problem is the European Law isn't guided by the actual text, but what Europe needs at that moment.

... innovation? what?! Like RDRAM, Itanium [1] and Larrabee?

So if Intel didn't do anything wrong why did they settle with AMD in the Anti-Trust lawsuit.

Take 1 foot out of mouth, insert other foot into mouth.