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Intel lodges EU antitrust appeal brief
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION has released the details of Intel's appeal in its ongoing anti-trust case.
Intel contends in the filing (PDF) that the original decision is flawed and lacks sufficient evidence. Among Intel's arguments are claims that the European Commission failed to prove an actual attempt by Intel to drive rival AMD from the market by offering discounts to vendors.
"The Commission fails to meet the required standard of proof in its analysis of the evidence," Intel argued.
"Thus, the Commission fails to prove that Intel's rebate arrangements were conditional upon its customers purchasing all or almost all of their x86 CPU requirements from Intel."
The appeal is the latest in the anti-trust battle between Intel and AMD, which has issued complaints around the globe accusing Intel of coercing customers into abandoning AMD systems and moving exclusively to machines powered by Intel chips.
The decision from the European Union was the first high-profile judgement made against Intel in the battle. The Commission declared that the company had violated European anti-trust standards and levied a £948m penalty against the company.
Since the decision was released in May, Intel has maintained that it will appeal against the ruling. The company has repeatedly contended that EU investigators did not fully analyse the evidence, and that the Commission did not possess an accurate picture of the state of the semiconductor market. µ
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Wow it is interesting to see that Intel claims that the EU didn't prove what Intel says they didn't do, but would stop doing to comply with the ruling. If Intel would only stop doing all of what they aren't doing, they wouldn't be in violation of the EU laws.
HB
The EU is not the US where complete domination seems to be a good thing, i think Intel will only get slapped harder with this appeal.
Im a Intel user myself and i dont plan on changing platform anytime soon by all the cash i dished out, but i kinda hope they will get a bigger slap for being this stupid and not accepting the little slap, because they got a very little slap!
EU could restrict Intel's market and do all kinds of nasty things, they are playing with fire.
Pay up and move on tbh, dont push it..
Will be interesting to see what happens
The child intel stomps it's feet telling the teacher he did not analyse properly, did not fully understand & is generally ignorant and thus wrong.
I cannot see how this will help intel, sounds like it's angry that it got caught with a hand in the cookie jar.
Just a thought.
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Well done!
They did nothing wrong other than violate anti-trust laws. The EU should increase the fine to 500 BILLION Euro so that InHell gets the message. The fine should be paid 80% to AMD and 20% to the EU to continue punishing criminal companies like InHell and Microsucks for their unending violation of law.
Bump...bump.
Intel had not been doing anything wrong. Intel only prevent its customers to do business with AMD because AMD's rubbish and inferior products. Intel didn't harm the consumers because they can take the benefits from Intel's superior and cheaper products. Intel believes with simple choice with Intel's products, consumers can take the advantages from Intel's superior products than competitors products. Intel will win in this litigation. Intel hopes AMD will be aware with its inferior products, so it is logical AMD can not win the deals with the customers. It is AMD own faults so they will be no more.