European Union antitrust enforcers have slapped Intel with a fresh $400 million fine in a long-running legal fight that the chipmaker appeared to have won last year.
  • Big PEnglish
    45•2 years ago

    When are they going to fine Microsoft for the blatant anti competitive Edge pushing inside Windows? 20 years ago it was a scandal just to bundle Internet Explorer and now they get away with progressively making it harder to switch away from Edge, forcing links to open in Edge rather than your default browser and injecting ads into your browser and OS when you try to download an alternative.

    • @hypertext@feddit.de
      25•2 years ago

      Google doing the same thing with chrome, sabotaging youtube under Firefox, etc.

      i want to see both of them fined heavily and best case forced to split some of their products out to separate companies (not sure how much that helps though)

    • @MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org
      8•2 years ago

      (Missionary impression) Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about Linux?

      Kidding… kind of. It would solve this particular problem for you, but Microsoft should of course be held accountable for this bad behavior.

    • @LufyCZ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      9•2 years ago

      Source for the revenue? Was only able to find figures in the $50-70bil range.

      Profit $20-30bil.

      Do you understand the case enough to make a more accurate judgement based on the relevant laws? I don’t, but believe that the court does.

      • Dreadino
        11•2 years ago

        The fine was 1b, 10 years ago. Nowadays chips have a geopolitical importance, so they lowered the fine to keep one of the most important player happy. Intel is finalizing contracts for billions here in Europe to build chip factories.

        This was a smart political move, not a mathematical operation

  • @dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de
    7•2 years ago

    I bought an Asus Vivobook (M7400Q) last year. It sells with two variants, Intel and AMD. I obviously chose AMD…only to realise that the thunderbolt port on it has been crippled, not allowing USB-C charging.

    Why? Because Intel paid ASUS to do so. So yeah, fuck Intel and fuck ASUS. And finally, the real kicker? ASUS discontinued the model, so I can’t buy a new charger for it either (which I needed for the office).