The European Commission has re-imposed a fine of around €376.36 million on Intel for a previously established abuse of dominant position in the market for computer chips called x86 central processing units (‘CPUs’). Intel engaged in a series of anticompetitive practices aimed at excluding competitors from the relevant market in breach of EU antitrust rules.

With today’s decision, we are re-imposing a €376.36 million fine on Intel for having abused its dominant position in the computer chips market. Intel paid its customers to limit, delay or cancel the sale of products containing computer chips of its main rival. This is illegal under our competition rules. Our decision shows the Commission’s commitment to ensure that very serious antitrust breaches do not go unsanctioned. - Commissioner Didier Reynders, in charge of competition policy

  • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦English
    5•1 year ago

    But the same could be said for Intel.

    Give examples that don’t involve shipping chips that need to be factory-overclocked and have much higher power consumption just to match AMD’s chips (also: https://www.xda-developers.com/intel-core-i9-13900k-vs-amd-ryzen-9-7950x/)

    For example, the Cinebench R23 results mentioned earlier had the Core i9 system consuming 461W of power, a whopping 110W higher than the 351W of the 7950X.

    or bribing OEMs just so that Intel doesn’t have to compete with AMD’s high-end CPUs by making buying an AMD PC either impossible or very obscure.

    Only an Intel fanboy can be oblivious to this and pretend that Intel is still in the CPU race. It doesn’t even make sense when you add to that their anti-competitive practices. You shouldn’t need to bribe OEMs to offer as few AMD options as possible if you were confident in your own CPUs.

    one specific use case that you have

    Same was said a long time ago about NVIDIA consumer GPUs supporting CUDA and look at where we are right now.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•1 year ago

      Even if you were correct, your obnoxious attitude would make me not care anyway. You’re lying to yourself if you believe at all that AMD has better CPUs. Intel has for a long time now the best single threaded performance. The other person laid it out for you nicely. I’m not much of an Intel fanboy but you types of people are just as obnoxios as apple users. Claim to know everything but completely wrong about it.

      • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦English
        -1•1 year ago

        Even if you were correct, your obnoxious attitude would make me not care anyway. I’ll keep being ignorant.

        Summarized pretty much what you said there. I’m not even exaggerating as that’s what you literally said, and honestly, your first sentence is just pathetic. You deliberately say that you’re choosing to be ignorant because you took it personally when I said mean things about your bad Intel purchase.

        I don’t see how we can have a discussion given you deal in “even if you were correct” statements so guess have a nice day.