Linked by David Adams on Tue 12th Jul 2005 15:41 UTC, submitted by Brett
Hot on the heels of an AMD antitrust lawsuit against Intel and a recent ruling in Japan that found that Intel abused its monopoly power, European Comission officials and competition authorities from several European countries raided the offices of Intel and several computer manufacturers. These "inspections" were probably carried out under article 81 of the EU Treaty, which prohibits price fixing and other distortions of competition within the EU.
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"While the Opterons may be every bit as reliable as Intel's chips, AMD hasn't built the reputation that Intel chips have."
You're talking about history. Some people will never understand...Intel is inferior to AMD products (talking Desktop) for about 3 years, period. Lower power dissipation, faster cpu's, better functionality (x64 - ringing any bells ?), not falling behind in terms of stability. Setting cpu's on fire by not attaching heat sink is again...history.
"If suppliers want to use AMD chips, why do they care if Intel refuses to supply them?"
Suppliers want to have a REAL choice what to sell. Nobody want's to constrain his offert to customers to only one supplier whether it is Intel or AMD.
"Adding on my previous statement, if Intel refuses to give enough companies processors, don't you think Intel will eventually start to lose money?"
Who will risk buiseness trying to force crucial supplier to be more competetive ? It's like cutting branch you're sitting on. That won't happen.
"I hope that the EU will disappear like the USSR did."
And i hope it won't. This action was taken to EU (individual countries wouldn't be taken so seriously). Still - strange comparison.