EU files antitrust charges against Intel @ CBC

[sswilson]

EU files antitrust charges against Intel

First, it said the company had provided "substantial rebates" to various computer manufacturers on condition they got all or most of the their chips from Intel. Secondly, the Commission alleges Intel made payments to manufacturers to induce them to either delay or cancel the launch of a product using an AMD chip. And thirdly, the commission said Intel had offered chips in the server market at below cost to undercut its rival.

I always wondered if this was why the big box boys took so long to begin offering A64 machines (both desktop and laptop) even though they were at the time better performers at highly competitive prices.

[magictorch]

oh well, hope AMD gets something back from this.....although i bet intels doing the same thing with the server market now..hopefully AMD will get those new cpus out soon.