The EU Strikes Back

Anarchduke writes: The European Union has decided to find Intel anti-competitive and generally a giant corporate douchebag in that they illegally paid manufacturers to scrap or delay implementation of AMD chips in their product offerings. They also paid to make manufacturers stick to ratio of their chips versus AMD chips in their systems. Lenovo Notebooks, for example, were to have only Intel CPUs in them, while NEC was told it could have up to 20% of its desktop and notebook offerings contain competitor chips.

Previous infractions by Intel include giving illegal rebates to computer makers back in 2007 and paying retailers not to sell AMD based computer systems.

The only question I would ask is which company is the bigger bastard, Intel or Microsoft.