INTEL FLUNG ITSELF on the mercy of the EU court yesterday and asked for a little more time to rally the troops in the defence against EU Commission charges.

Intel’s Chuck Mulloy considered the EU's request to be quite reasonable as it needed a bit more time to have “the ability to conduct a full and fair defence of the company”.

But competition commissars were having none of it and denied Intel its request. "The Commission considers it gave ample time to Intel to respond to the objections compared with equivalent cases with other companies," said Jonathan Todd, spokesperson for the Komissariat.

Intel is being charged with offering a computer maker incentives to limit use of AMD processors. These incentives were in the form of bigger discounts on CPU orders, it is said. This charge complements the previous (more generic) charges raised last year in July, that Intel had offered similar incentives throughout €uroland.

Well if you want to ask the EU for something in public and risk being denied, might as well do it while the IT world is looking at Apple’s Macbooks, innit?

L’Inq
Reuters