Intel faces massive EU censure - report

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Sweet! now come the US dipshits and by that I Mean their poor excuses for diplomats to try and lean on the EU only to be told to go forth and fuck them selfs.

Great news!

I hope they get 500million hours of comunity bum sex.

.... they always find a way to steal money from poor, law-abiding, tax-paying american companies.

Hold on a sec, tovarish.... I'm one of those euro-commies! 

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Too bad none of those BIG €€€€ trickle down to us poor tovarishes.... just like ole good USSR those €€€€€ are strictly dedicated to the NOMENKLATURA

There's a fine hanging over their heads of 10% of an annual turnover, which comes to 2.6 billion euros ($4 billion in US toy money).
Intel denies wrongdoings though and might appeal.

So, - now all prices for everything has to be approved in Brussels (New Moscow)? …all discount stores, all rebates etc will be prohibited? Wow!! Pricing Police: what price did you pay for this 8MP camera? – Customer: depends what currency you asking, in US dollars it is almost nothing!!
What else US can sell to keep $ afloat? Selling guns is not allowed..

If somebody is looking to find real monopoly they should look on Taiwan’s TSMC. They supplied almost every chip in your household.

"A shocked Intel in the US promised us a comment once its senior spinners awake."

Well, they certainly don;t have Shane Warne on their team, so i guess a Phil Tuffnell stand in will have to do... haha

The thing is, Intel is obligated to have POTUS pressure EU's gov, and make it give.

Intel (CIA term for "intelligence") cannot be premitted to be abused by law, particularly foreign law.

That's just the way it is.

Bush will make it so.

und zo there must be a hangin' chad somewhere

Let the EU be stuck with VIA and AMD

So does AMD get to take some spanking out of Intel?

Unless I'm sadly mis-informed, I don't see where the case is here. Against MS, I saw it, but not here.
I'm inclined to think Intel is getting the shaft here.. and the EU has always been more than willing to dish it out to American companies. However, me and my paycheck might be a bit biased on this one.

Its up to Intel how they advertise, whats so bad about that, nothing! The EU should stop interfering.

As much as I want to be offended at the notion of the E.U. pressuring American companies like they have....I can't. 

At least SOMEONE out there is trying to keep these people honest. And its not like giants like Microsoft and Intel are in ANY danger of shutting down because of excessive lawsuits. Also, the E.U. has the major benefit of not having these companies based in their country, so they don't have thousands of ultra-high priced lobbyists killing any attempt to keep them in line.

The one thing is DOES dibble me off a lot is that none of these rulings apply in the United States. So they can just continue their usual bullshot here with not a single person to say otherwise.


It is not about punishing America companies.
It is about monopoly, with monopoly the consumer loose.
You want to be at the mercy of one company?
With this all consumers are wining.

I think it's perfectly understandable that Intel gets fined, around 2 billion euros: European Commissionners and EU commission employees pay NO tax, earn quite a lot, travel 1st/biz class, have stays in Hilton hotels and expat extra cash etc ... All this money has to come from somewhere !! They're not stupid enough to rely on the few successful EU companies to sustain their high standrad of lazy living.

Well sue them because they have MONEY to advertise and give rebates! Imagine if AMD had any money what they could do with it! Sure i know what they could do with it give the EU all of it! What total and utter shit!!!!!

It is good that our European union takes action against intel. intel has been abusing its position for years now to make massive profits without fair competition in the market. yes amd is a fair competioner. but intel is not. they buyoff retailers and system builders to delay AMD and nvidia products for there own gain. yes there should be competition but buying off vendors with 100,000 free processors ,yes i talk to dell and HP to if they dont sell any amd chips in there systems is discusting. you americans might love a free market and all and so do i but im sure you would be pissed off when amd and nvidia died because of an intel monopoly and intel would bumb up quad core prices too like 2000 dollar and get you back to some sort of pentium 4 era hot running processor with an air plane engine stock cooler and some slow igp. because they have nothing to fear and can make more profit that way. it is good intel gets a hit on its fingers. because competition is good for inovation and affordable pricing

So... 500million hours of community bum sex is off the menu as they would probably enjoy that.

I think they should all be forced to go on perpetual team building holidays with Jen-Sun Huang.

Compeng - yes you are sadly mis-informed.