Intel to Be Found Guilty in Europe, Innocent in the US

Written by IT News on 10:39 PM

The computer processor market is dominated for the last decade or so, two big names, Intel and AMD, with the latter almost constantly occupying the underdog position. As you may have heard from very many of our previous articles on this topic, the big "Chipzilla", since Intel is also known as slapped with the case with AMD, its headquarters was raided and he even received a rather hefty fine in Korea .

And now, Intel also is under formal FTC (Federal Trade Commission)
The investigation will look into what appears to be the core of AMD problems with its bigger rival: the problem with concessions. You might know little about this subject now, but to sum things, we will say only that the accused AMD Intel coercing some computer manufacturers and integrators of AMD ditch processors and Intel go to in order to enjoy some generous concessions.

However, as Jason Mick points out quite well for DailyTech, antitrust legislation in the U.S., are much looser, that those of the old continent, which can lead to a very special situation: while the EU will most likely find the guilty Intel (with hefty fine to follow), U.S., the company may be considered innocent and maybe just get a recommendation similar to that of Japanese anti-trust Commission issued after its own investigation (Intel, which in a way that is held at probably in order to avoid paying a huge sum of money as compensation).

This situation is quite hilarious caused by the fact that no world-compatible antitrust law, meaning that each country (or group of countries) is the assessment of this issue according to its own laws in this area. And while it will take some time before the various laws will actually be harmonized, have one question that still bugs us: Intel is guilty or that this is really something, just across the smoke screen created by AMD, to hide its quite adverse outcomes and reduce market share?