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Title: Intel being investigated for antitrust violations Post by: dannyBstyle on June 06, 2008, 01:18:45 PM Apparently Intel's been under the gun in Europe (http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=10539.0), but now the FTC is after them.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25006003/ Now, I'm usually an anti-corporate bleeding heart pinko commie, but in my experience it seems that Intel generally just makes better products at a better price. The criticisms levied seem to include "illegally threatening computer manufacturers with higher prices if they don’t stick exclusively with Intel chips". If that pans out, sure - it's against the laws n' stuffs. But it seems more likely that they're being punished for offering complete solutions, from cpu to chipset to motherboard. It seems more like AMD has serious penis envy due to the fact that they haven't made a decent competitive chip since the AthlonXP era. I have to believe that if AMD returned to its Rebel Alliance days and simply made faster, cooler chips at a fraction the cost of the evil Imperial Intel chips, that they wouldn't be dying such a slow, painful death. It's too bad, too. I used to be an AMD/ATI nut. Then I grew pubes. -danny Title: Re: Intel being investigated for antitrust violations Post by: Ookii on June 06, 2008, 01:26:00 PM http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=3809.0 (http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=3809.0)
http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=10539.0 (http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=10539.0) Europe seems to be a little better about sorting these things out than the US. Title: Re: Intel being investigated for antitrust violations Post by: dannyBstyle on June 06, 2008, 01:29:58 PM My problem is that Intel's chips are just a better value. Ookii's a dirty Browncoat for the AMD resistance so he wouldn't understand :oh_i_see:.
Title: Re: Intel being investigated for antitrust violations Post by: Fabricated on June 06, 2008, 01:40:52 PM One of my cousins is married to a chip designer who works for AMD (formerly worked for Motorola), and he says that AMD has flat out better technology than Intel especially in materials (he went on and on about shit I didn't understand), but the 'old people' who run the company are 'running the thing into the fucking ground'. He was pretty drunk when he told me all of this.
I guess the chipset after this current one is going to have some severe heat dissipation problems if Intel fabricates them the way he thinks they're going to. |