As call , the Federal Trade Commission is suing Intel for , as they put it , “ [ engaging ] in a deliberate military campaign to hamstring militant threats to its monopoly . ” This is n’t exit to terminate well for Intel .
https://gizmodo.com/the-ftc-still-wants-to-slay-the-intel-monopoly-monster-5418155
Earlier this twelvemonth , Intel wasforced to pay off a $ 1.45 billion fine by the EU , and last month they had topay AMD a $ 1.25 billion settlementfor anti - competitive practices . This new suit is for basically the same things .
https://gizmodo.com/intel-smacked-with-staggering-1-45-billion-fine-in-eur-5252046
The E.U. ’s charge admit paying computer makers to apply Intel chips instead of AMD one , and even threatening some companies if they sound onwards and used AMD CPU . The FTC notes that the populace has been deny accession to “ potentially higher-ranking ” splintering as a result of the same spoiled practices . And it highlight what seems to be a peculiarly nasty one : Intel apparently design compiling program code so that it “ by design stunted ” the performance of the code when run on non - Intel CPUs , and then told the public the codification simply work well on Intel - made chips .
Ugly hooey . The first hearing is scheduled for September 8 , 2010 , so this is going to be a longsighted and suck out process . [ FTCviaFastCompany ]
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