EU confirms additional antitrust charges against Intel

Updated at 1:05 p.m. PDT to include Intel's response.

Europe's governing body said Thursday it is expanding the number of antitrust charges it is bringing against Intel.

The European Commission's official announcement confirms a report that appeared earlier this week in The Wall Street Journal.

The commission filed court papers Thursday bringing three additional charges against Intel for abusing its dominant position in the chip market in Europe, including offering inducements to European retailers for not buying processors from the company's competitors, chiefly Advanced Micro Devices.

In addition, Intel is charged with paying "a leading Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM)" to delay the launch of a product with an AMD CPU, and giving "substantial" rebates to the same OEM if it bought only CPUs from Intel.

Intel issued a statement Thursday afternoon. "We're naturally disappointed the Commission has decided to issue a new (Statement of Objections). The issuance of a second SO suggests that the Commission supports AMD's position that Intel should be prevented from competing fairly and offering price discounts which have resulted in lower prices for consumers." The company said it will evaluate the charges and plans to respond.

Intel has eight weeks to do so, at which time a hearing will be held.

[Commander_Spock]

According to this Cnet News article in part; re: "Europe's governing body said Thursday it is expanding the number of antitrust charges it is bringing against Intel... Not the least bit unexpected after Intel's understandably positive outlook against that the world's financial outlook - so, as an easy EU money making strategy (like the one against Microsoft... go after those successful American owned companies. It's about time that the "CONCORDE" flies commercially - Again! Now we know how much "Silica Sand" sells!

[Commander_Spock]

"Mission Accomplished" (with France's support of course); now, on to that "64-bit" Systems Architecture from INTEL for the OS/2 Operating Systems for some "RAPIER-Like" (British) Missiles for the "Tora Boras"!

Follow the below attached link:

http://www.ima.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/ariane.html

[Commander_Spock]

Oops, did Commander_Spock do that! Re: "Mission Accomplished" (without instead of with) France's support of course); now, on to that "64-bit" Systems Architecture from INTEL for the OS/2 Operating Systems for some "RAPIER-Like" (British) Missiles for the "Tora Boras"! The "better technology" sells!

[Commander_Spock]

Dateline..... VIETNAM.... LOCATION - FIRE BASE 22.... Now, All Your (British Guiana "Silica Sand") Base (and "Carbon Units") Are Belong To US (INTEL). ROFL!

[Commander_Spock]

A very simple solution: INTEL should move all of its European based operations into the Americas and have Europeans fly to the Americas aboard the "CONCORDE" and "AIRBUSES" to get their supplies of the "Computer That Is Inside The Computer Inside" then fly back to Europe. You get what you pay for!