Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 15th Sep 2009 21:55 UTC
Earlier this year, the European Commission imposed a massive fine upon Intel for its anti-competitive practices in the OEM space. Intel has been given the opportunity to respond, as is usual in cases like this, and the chip maker is claiming that the fine should be thrown out, because the EC did not prove that Intel's practices hurt the competition.
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2006-10-28
"Isn't AMD a European Own Company? I remember 5-6 years ago AMD was actually beating Intel in PC Sales."
No, AMD is American. It wasn't beating Intel either. Intel had much more sales. However, it posed a tough threat to Intel between 2003-2006.
"A lot of PC's proudly had AMD stickers on them, and they were doing quite well until the Intel Core Dues came out."
True. AMD was fairly popular between 2003-2006, and many bragged about having AMD CPUs in their computers. Before the Core 2 blew them out of the water, they were the better value, offer superior performance at a lower price. Also, Intel's rather abusive monopoly power was slipping at the time.
"And they performed better and cheaper then what AMD had to offer."
Yes, the Core 2 really outclassed AMD, and they couldn't keep up with intel on the high end performance wise. Thus, they had to lower their prices greatly to remain competitive. However, it didn't work that well. Their share slipped and Inetl beat them fair and square with the C2D.