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Re: The EU thinks that discounts that produce lower prices for the consumer are bad. Screw the consumer says the EU, we have to protect the German company.

It's almost reverse logic. The EU says they are protecting the consumer from higher prices that might occur if Intel's supposed illegal behavior had succeeded in driving out competition. The ironic part is, like you mention, the charges occurred in the past, so they were unsuccessful in driving AMD out of business. And even more ironic, regardless of the truth of the allegations, AMD is driving themselves out of business with their broken business strategy and foolhardy ATI purchase. Which means that Intel's actions did not harm the consumer, but the EU still wants to punish them anyway. Even though the consumer has benefitted from the lower prices.