Intel Corp (INTC)

[Windsock]

The FTC does not levy fines and rarely asks for funds to remediate the marketplace. It is highly unlikely that the Settlement will include any payments by Intel.

The Settlement will have a lot of stuff that fits in the "Intel agrees to not do what it says it never did" category. I think that there will also be a set of rules on volume discounts. The effect of the volume rules will provide a safe harbor for Intel to use discount practices it can live with. If Intel has FTC approved set of Discount Rules, it will cheerfully follow those Rules and beat AMD to a bloody pulp.

When is Bulldozer supposed to arrive? When is 32nm production supposed to get fixed?

Any antitrust complaint in the US would be doomed because Intel was following FTC Rules -- US Government certified Legal Rules.