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Intel in threats and bribery suit

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I checked but did not see any hints for this so decided to post the link. It looks as if the time Intel were going to spend in court has not yet ended. They have got the crown now and I personally do not believe this is going to harm their business with regard to sales (assuming that this practice is no longer in use after 2007) but their image will be tarnished again.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8343179.stm

Intel is facing a federal lawsuit that accuses it of using "illegal threats" to dominate microchip sales.
 
willhub said:
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I do not know what is wrong. BBC website being sluggish?

I am posting the whole article. Mods should this be against the forum rules please rectify it.

Intel in threats and bribery suit

Intel dominates the personal computer microchip market


Intel is facing a federal lawsuit that accuses it of using "illegal threats" to dominate microchip sales.

The New York attorney general accuses Intel of using "bribery and coercion" to make computer manufacturers buy its chips instead of those from its rivals.

Andrew Cuomo said the anti-competition federal lawsuit follows an investigation lasting almost two years.

Intel said in a statement that the "decision to file suit against [us] is just plain wrong".
The quicker Intel owns up to its actions the quicker it, and the entire computer industry, can move on
Ed Black, Computer and Communications Industry Association


"Neither consumers, who have consistently benefited from lower prices and increased innovation, nor justice, are being served by the decision to file a case now," it added.

In May, Intel was fined $1.5bn (£948m) by European competition authorities.

The firm denied any wrongdoing in that case and is now appealing.

'Systematic campaign'

Mr Cuomo said Intel - the world's largest maker of semiconductors - had been engaged in a "worldwide, systematic campaign of illegal conduct".

"Rather than compete fairly, Intel used bribery and coercion to maintain a stranglehold on the market," he added.

"Intel's actions not only unfairly restricted potential competitors, but also hurt average consumers who were robbed of better products and lower prices."

Mr Cuomo said the details of the case were revealed in email exchanges.

Intel is accused of paying millions of dollars each year - and "in some years billions" - in payoffs to computer makers in exchange for them only buying its chips.

It is further said to have withdrawn this payments to punish those computer firms "perceived to be working too closely with Intel's competitors".

Ed Black, president of trade body Computer and Communications Industry Association, said Mr Cuomo had put forward a "strong case".

"The quicker Intel owns up to its actions the quicker it, and the entire computer industry, can move on," he said.

In the European case, the European Commission ruled in May that Intel had paid manufacturers and one retailer to favour its chips over those of key rival Advanced Micro Devices between 2002 and 2007.
 
Yep, The very reason why an Intel CPU will never find its why into one of my builds and hasn't done for years. Recently I built a new system around the Phenom x4 despite the fact that Intel produce faster chips. That's just the way I am!

Whether there's an Intel chip on my Motherboard/Graphic card or in my microwave, I just don't know, but main CPU... Never!

Turk.
 
And if AMD had Intels massive share of the business, and Intel was the underdog, there is absolutely no proof that AMD would have any better business ethics. Its business, they will do anything to get their product sold.

People often go on about how great AMD are with their budget pricing, have they forgotten when the Athlon64's came out they were so much faster than Intels P4's that AMD had no problem with slapping very premium prices on them, especially the high end models, while all Intel could do was keep dropping the pricetag on the Pentium 4's until they finally had a viable performance product.

Dont get me wrong, I dont approve of Intel's alleged behavior, but I do understand it... The Pentium 4 was a completly rubbish processor, but at the time its all intel had, and they got rather desparate to get rid of it in the face of AMD's ever increasing market share with Athlon64's. My justification for saying Pentium IV is rubbish is based on Pentium III being considerably faster clock for clock, and that Core2's are effectivly based on an evolution of Pentium III not Pentium IV. But dont come all AMD is perfect intel is the devil... It's the same wherever you look, AMD/ATi are playing the price card still, because Nvidia's high end parts are fast, but very expensive. If Nvidia dont get their Fermi parts out soon, and AMD/ATi really crush them in the performance markets, I would be completely unsurprised if they slap on extreme pricetags on extreme parts.

Nvidia is a case in point, if things dont go their way, they modify their drivers so their cards wont go SLI.. Why so they can sell more chipsets... Thats just as bad as anything intel have ever done.
 
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Is this the same lawsuit intel got slapped ( by the EU), for threatening ? and got a fine.... in my eyes Nvidia has done far worst than intel would ever dream of doing

or have I not been paying attention ?
 
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