Replies to post #92652 on Intel Corp (INTC)

[tatertot]

? the proposed FTC settlement apparently involves no cash.

[herb will]

"Allowing parassites like Kroes, AMD, and now FTC to suck up all the hard-earned cash"

It ain't no perfect world unfortunately. People get sued and dragged into court, it could happen to you and me. You know that very old adage to that settle with your adversary before he takes you to the judge because the judge may turn you over to the officer and the officer may throw you in the hoosegow! But I don't think they bent over for Kroes. They have appealed and told the appeals court that Neelie violated their "human rights"! They just bought AMD an expensive pacifier to keep them from whining for awhile and we don't know what's up with the FTC yet!

[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.