Intel is still fighting against the EU's $1.2 Billion antitrust fine

Intel is still fighting against the EU's $1.2 Billion antitrust fine

| Source: bloomberg Author: Mark Campbell

Intel is still fighting against the EU's $1.2 Billion antitrust fine

Intel is still fighting against the EU's $1.2 Billion antitrust fine from 2009, which was given to Intel after courts concluded that they were abusing their market position to stifle AMD's growth and eliminate competition.

While Intel has already been denied an appeal back in 2014, but once again Intel is refusing to pay, stating to the European Court of Justice that the European Commission did not fully analyse "all relevant circumstances" to conclude that Intel has shut out their rivals back in 2009.

In the original case, Intel was found to have been giving rebates to manufacturers like Acer, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo and NEC between 2002 and 2007 on the condition that at least 95% of their systems shipped with Intel CPUs and had "restrictive conditions" imposed on the other 5%. This prevented AMD from overcoming their rivals, preventing them from gaining any market share, despite the fact that they introduced the market's first X86 64-bit CPU back in 2003 and releasing the first dual core CPU in 2005.

During this investigation, Intel was also found to have made payments to the retailer Media Markt on the condition that they only sold Intel-powered PCs. This prevented AMD from even selling their PCs at this retailer, making them unable to compete with Intel.

The European Commission should soon decide on Intel's new appeal, hopefully forcing Intel to finally pay up after 7 years of contesting their original decision.

Rightfully Intel's 1.06 Billion Euro fine should have gone to AMD six years ago, rather than sitting in Intel's coffers. Hopefully, this court case will be finished soon, as to put it mildly this really should have been resolved by now.

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