New York AG files antitrust suit against Intel

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited November 2009 in Science & Tech
New York AG files antitrust suit against Intel

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  • Cliff_ForsterCliff_Forster Icrontian
    edited November 2009
    I nominate Andrew Cuomo for man of the day.
  • miragemirage
    edited November 2009
    Isn't that meaningful to see this suit in NY after AMD's huge investment in the state? I wonder if this was part of the deal. The same happened in EU after AMD helped Germany by investing in unemployed/impoverished Dresden (previously in East Germany).
  • Cliff_ForsterCliff_Forster Icrontian
    edited November 2009
    mirage wrote:
    Isn't that meaningful to see this suit in NY after AMD's huge investment in the state? I wonder if this was part of the deal. The same happened in EU after AMD helped Germany by investing in unemployed/impoverished Dresden (previously in East Germany).

    If Intel were innocent of wrongdoing I would think they would have been able to make that case.
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited November 2009
    Cliff, why won't you provide evidence that you haven't murdered anyone? Is it because you're a murderer?
  • miragemirage
    edited November 2009
    Right and wrong are separated with such a wide and blurred gray line in the business world nowadays. You are right that Intel is big enough for taking care of itself. But I just can't help seeing the pattern.
  • Cliff_ForsterCliff_Forster Icrontian
    edited November 2009
    Mirage, its a fair observation. I think ultimately its not about who files the claim and for what reason and more about what the testimony is. You know the old saying, Don't start nothin and there won't be nothin.... Intel got scared, people forget but there was a period where AMD had the superior chip, and Intel responded not by producing better tech but by bribing the OEM's and channel partners not to stock AMD. Read the EU testimony, its pretty damning.
  • miragemirage
    edited November 2009
    Right, Intel panicked with AMD's successful Athlon 64 and tried to pull dirty tricks. If Intel had just waited, AMD was going to screw itself in the next step and Intel had a strong product portfolio coming up. Both CEO's had big mistakes. Ruiz tried to launch a satellite without enough fuel in the rocket, Otellini (and his predecessor) acted like a cheap salesman. I am glad AMD survived the crash. They both learned their lessons, I hope.
  • ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
    edited November 2009
    The point is that Intel didn't just wait. They paid off manufacturers to not use AMD chips. Sure, AMD made mistakes too, but at least theirs weren't illegal and anti-competitive. If AMD took illegal and anti-competitive measures to try and crush Intel, I'd be glad to see antitrust suits against them as well. They didn't though. Intel did. It's nice to see an attorney general not ignore antitrust law for once.
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