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Skobbolop

5:23 PM on 13 May, 2009

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That is why I don't have any Intel hardware in my computer :D

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xenos

6:06 PM on 13 May, 2009

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That should teach them...

Intel's behaviour has been disgusting frankly.

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Williamn

6:06 PM on 13 May, 2009

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Great to see Mr Chester back on the news desk!

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Ed

6:32 PM on 13 May, 2009

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@Williamn: Sadly it's just a one off for the time being.

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supersizeme

8:21 PM on 13 May, 2009

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business as usual for intel then.....having said that, this kind of thing goes on in all types of business. Mergers and Monopolies commission, EU antitrust commission - wow - I wondered where all my tax went

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Premfab

8:52 PM on 13 May, 2009

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The fine is chicken feed compared to what Intel made in profit for this 'crime'.

Sadly, all big companies do it. For example, Microsoft will blatantly copy a technology, drive out the competition and then pay the meagre fine. By this time, the competition has either given up or gone bust.

Intel's done the same here.

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Chocoa

9:57 PM on 13 May, 2009

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@ Prem

You're right, all businesses do it (I Guess.) How else does a large business with a well saturated market, keep a preeminent position and competition at bay. (Other than the obvious of new products etc etc) - But by leveraging the market place. How far they go and get caught is the risk they accept in walking the line.

The EU does like to play big grumpy daddy though! - Shame the legal fees will come out of our empty pockets.

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Wesley

10:34 PM on 13 May, 2009

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Quite frankly I don't care what Intel does, if they make the best product for my money then they are what I buy. If AMD actually made CPU's that could compete with Intel then this wouldn't be an issue, but the fact is AMD has lost it and would rather focus their efforts on suing Intel rather than actually making good products.

Whats sad is that my Q6600 CPU from Intel is still better than AMD's most recent generation of CPU's. The fact is that Intel makes superior products, so I don't really care what kind of business practices they use.

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xenos

12:16 AM on 14 May, 2009

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Wesley the point is that AMD couldn't make competing processors because Intel has spent the last few years trying to drive them out of the market, leading to reduced research budgets and in turn fewer future sales.

Frankly AMD have done amazingly well with Phenom II and now I hope to see them release more goodies to really push things forward. Competition is good remember.

And the EU sued Intel not AMD, they filed the complaint I believe but that is all!

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aaron88

12:38 AM on 14 May, 2009

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@Wesley

If Intel didn't run this scam then AMD would have made a lot more money which they would have used for R and D resulting in better CPUs. This would force intel to develop better processors than they have now and they would have to sell them for less in order to compete so you should care about what intel does.

Remeber it was the Athlon XP processors that forced intel to sort out their act with the Pentium 4s.

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mjaffk

1:51 AM on 14 May, 2009

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way to go, AMD! now make at least one good processor for notebooks... please?

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GoldenGuy

9:16 AM on 14 May, 2009

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Do these companies - and I'm asking this in all seriousness - have a sort of annual antitrust budget factored into their accounts : "Okay, we can only afford a billion dollar lawsuit this year guys."

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Ed

12:02 PM on 14 May, 2009

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@Wesley: This particular ruling refers to the period when AMD DID have the best processors - remember the Athlon XP and Athlon64? These were trouncing Intel's Pentium 4s but through the above practices Intel was able to use its financial clout to hinder AMDs ability to take advantage of its superior products.

Also, the latest Phenom's are better than the Q6600. Admittedly it's quite close but they are better overall.

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PaulLeigh

1:24 PM on 14 May, 2009

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I didn't buy AMD processors back in the day becuase they needed the Motherboards pacthing and windows patches, which in my experience, seems to be the underlying culrpti for many a problem. Of course, most of the time it was stable but when you had a problem that you simply couldn't resolve on an AMD machine, it all seemed to work fine on the intel boxes. I agree with the comments above, Intel products are and in my mind always were superior.

I know some of the comments here sya that the AMD processors were better but believe me, speed is only one measure of "better". Reliability, overheating, compatability all add up too.

I'm suspect Intel, like many other companies (you reading this Hagen Das) are really guilty of this type of anti-competetive behaviour but you all know full well, if that 1Bn fine stands - Its us, the consumers who ultimately have to pay it. Grrr....

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hankb6d

1:45 PM on 14 May, 2009

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@paul leigh

Summed it up in a nutshell there, but wait Hagen Das has always been poor ice cream for me, Sainsbury's Vanilla £1 a tub!!!

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Ed

2:31 PM on 15 May, 2009

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@Paul Leigh: I'm not talking about when AMD was producing Intel copies, I mean the entire five years or so that Pentium 4 was around. AMD quite simply ruled the roost by whatever measure you choose, which is why Intel took these anticompetitive steps during this period.

Ever since this period, AMD processors have been very good but currently Intel's are just better, at least if money's no object. Pound for pound, they're actually pretty even.

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