Showing posts with label Intel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Intel. Show all posts

Thursday, November 19, 2009

The European Ombudsman on Intel's complaint

A non-confidential version of the Decision closing the inquiry has now been published.

Thursday, November 05, 2009

US Intel Case

See the Office of Attorney General Press Release. The AAI is quite supportive of the complaint. The Federal Trade Commission will possibly "join the fray against the chip maker".

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Intel: Abuse of Dominant Position

According to the Commission, competition and innovation have been undermined on the x86 CPU market. In particular, Intel allegedly gave secret loyalty or fidelity rebates to spur the sale of its x86 central processing units (CPUs). Moreover Intel, according to the EU Commission's findings, made direct payments to computer manufacturers on the condition that they halted or delayed the launch of products containing competitors’ x86 CPUs.
See also a working paper prepared by the AAI comparing the European Intel Case with the U.S. Microsoft Cases.