European Commission Publishes Evidences of Intel’s Abuse of Dominant Position

From X-bit Labs: The European Commission on Monday disclosed evidences proving that Intel Corp. abused its dominant position on the market to ensure its market share. Numerous companies received special rebates on condition that they would not utilize microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices.

Earlier this year the European Commission slapped Intel with record $1.44 billion fine for anticompetitive business practices and violation of the region’s laws. The chipmaker said it would appeal and did not admit its guilt. The EC published excerpts from emails of various executives at computer makers which discussed rebates that Intel provided on condition of exclusion of processors from PC makers’ lineups.

According to EC, Intel abused its dominant position in the x86 central processing units market by implementing a series of conditional rebates to computer manufacturers and to a European retailer and by taking other measures aimed at preventing or delaying the launch of computers based on competing products (so-called 'naked restrictions').

View: Article @ Source Site