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More details on the initial antitrust fine: https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/20/intel_antitrust_eu/ https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/20/intel_antitrust_eu
by car_analogy 4y ago
More details on the initial antitrust fine: https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/20/intel_antitrust_eu/ https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/20/intel_antitrust_eu/
It is in relation to the rebates Intel paid to retailers to not stock competitor's parts, which is about as obviously anti-competitive as it gets. The fines were cancelled on the basis of:
the court sided with Intel, calling the commission’s analysis incomplete and said it had failed to establish a legal standard that the “rebates at issue were capable of having, or were likely to have, anticompetitive effects.”
which is a lot of words to say nothing.
- rasz 4y agoIntel is playing with rabates/rewards to this day, often bigger retailers receive free Intel products for hitting sale numbers tuned in a certain personalized way forcing them to push Intel only. MCP (Meet Comp Program) were enormous, up to $1B a year to DELL alone. AMD got wrecked by this just when Intel was most vulnerable (P4). This case shows that owing $1B dollars is not the problem for the one that owes the money, but for the party being owed. $1B buys you a LOT of top lawyers to argue your case to death, sooner or later you will be able to pay someone off to make it go away.