European Antitrust Regulators Search Intel Offices Geez, this will keep Intel busy. Amazing story. AMD must be giving high fives everywhere.
Antitrust investigators raided four European offices of Intel Corp. on Tuesday, seeking information in a long-running inquiry into the business tactics of the world’s biggest computer chip maker.
European Commission officials and local authorities searched Intel offices in Madrid; Milan, Italy; Munich, Germany; and Swindon, England, Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy confirmed. A commission spokesman said investigators also searched the offices of computer makers and distributors.
The European Commission began investigating Intel four years ago but lost momentum until archrival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. offered new information last year. In this country, Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD filed an antitrust lawsuit against Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel, alleging that the company illegally used its market dominance to bully computer makers into using only Intel chips in their products.
Does this mean that Microsoft/Intel relationship is finially over, or will the seek each other out in a new relationship?
Quote: “Antitrust authorities in the United States have said that abuse of dominance or monopolisation cases are their lowest priority, after cartels and mergers.”
Meaning we have laws against this but won’t enforce them if you also pay off the government officials. If you don’t have political and/or financial influence we’ll throw the book at you though. This country boasts about having the best government but it is at least as corrupt as any other it claims superiority over. Not enforcing laws is as corrupt as breaking them. We’ll spend multi-billions and countless resources and man hours jailing pot smokers while we simply “de-prioritize” and de-finance enforcing our business laws. Our checks and balances are a complete facade. This is government “for the people by the most corrupt people and Corporations”.