Regulators search various Intel offices

[Roland99]

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8B9VKJG0.htm?campaign_id=apn_tech_down

JUL. 12 1:13 P.M. ET European regulators raided Intel Corp. offices in Britain, Germany, Spain and Italy on Tuesday, two weeks after rival U.S. chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices filed lawsuits in Japan and the United States claiming Intel violated antitrust rules.

Investigators also visited offices of companies that make or sell computers. Dell Inc. offices in Britain were among them, said company spokesman Jess Blackburn in Austin, Texas.

Microprocessors from Intel, the world's leading chip maker, dominate the global market in desktop computers that run Microsoft's Windows operating system, accounting for 90 percent in revenue terms.

Sparked by complaints from AMD, the European Commission has for more than four years been investigating claims that Intel used unfair business practices to persuade clients to buy its microprocessors to the exclusion of rivals' chips.

[mom cat]

1. There is INTEL inside

the jail....this could be very big.

[Monkie]

2. good to see the Europeans starting to regulate that messy american market

sorry couldnt resist! :P
there is the serious point here that European laws reach further than its borders and this must be hated in washington and in quite a few corporate boardrooms.In the long run this is could even benefit American consumers when they get the protections of EU law due to economic reasons,at some point in time it will be cheaper to produce one identical product for both markets than it is to continue poisoning you..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3222319.stm

[dxdem]

3. I love it.

I'm a big techno-weenie, I'll admit it. Go AMD.