Posted on 05/13/2009 4:26:12 AM PDT by paudio
The verdict is in and it's huge. As expected, the EU is fining Intel a record €1.06 billion or $1.45 billion (Billion!) dollars due to violations of antitrust rules in Europe. The record fine surpasses that of the €497 million fine originally levied against Microsoft. The EU ruled that Intel illegally used hidden rebates to squeeze rivals out of the marketplace for CPUs. In a statement issued by European Union Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes, the EC said,
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Well that was so ‘nineties’, Intel eventually caved on the PSN.
A History of Privacy Issues Intel Pentium III Processor Serial Number
http://www.cdt.org/privacy/issues/pentium3/
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Querying the PSN does not give a hacker direct access to your personal information, but it can be used to make it easier for a hacker to individually identify your computer.
The looting continues ...
Intel stole their current design for their microprocessor. They are crooks and it is catching up with them. This is no surprise to me.
You don’t like Intel so that makes it okay for the EU to shake them down??? Whatever Intel’s putative sins, that only issues that matter here are whether they behaved in an illegal manner that harmed consumers. The fact that their chips had a math problem is entirely irrelevant.
The Euros are still P.O.d that our computer industry left them in the dust decades ago. Next they’ll find a way to shake down AMD.
AMD won’t see a cent. Every penny of this will go into federal coffers to fund Chairman Obama’s utopia. He is in deep doo-doo in terms of paying for everything since it looks like cap and trade has been deep-sixed.
Do you have some examples of things that haven’t been fixed / eliminated since say 1994 and 2000 respectively?
I think we’re well past Pentium I, II, and III.
Heck, my 6+ year old PentiumIV still works just fine, but I can’t say that about the one and only AMD based system I ever built. I used that system for less than 2 years and had nothing but problems with it.
Please, provide some recent examples, perhaps more direct info on the IP stealing of Digital’s info.
Thanks to you all. You've made my day and reminded me that a free people can be trusted - to at the very least disagree. ;-]
I will do my research and again much thanks to you all.
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My current AMD box has been up and running since 2003. I haven’t had the issues you seem to be implying.
What chip are you running?
This is what the US will look like soon if the Zero gets his way.
Euro Commies can pound sand. Intel should just refuse to pay. What will the Euroweenies use for computers, counting on their fingers? They can get to 20 if they take their shoes off. We should boycott ALL Euro products. Hear that Beemer owners?
In dire need of an upgrade on the whole system. This one runs so good though that I may just upgrade the video to an ATI 3850 AGP and let my kids have it for a gamer box.
My next box will more than likely be a Phenom quad-core with a pair of SLI something or others. I'm waiting to see what the dogfight between AMD/ATI and nVidia tosses at us next.
Computers and computer chips produce ozone during operation.
Ozone has therapeutic uses.
Therefore, computers and computer chips can be classified as a drug.
The FDA should simply settle this by taking over all of the computer industry like it is going after cherrios.
Don’t give your kids an old box for gaming. That would be very frustrating for them. It’d be best to build one or two cheap (Intel) Wolfdale CPU-based systems (CPU, board, video and RAM). Look for a board with integrated video to save a few dollars. The Wolfdale systems (CPU + board) are inexpensive and can be aggressively overclocked. I have mine running at 4.9Ghz on 1150Mhz DDR2 RAM.
No wonder I’m so hungry after surfing the web... Munchies and MIPS.
Oh, that's an old wives tale ;)
The Pentium Papers -- ARCHIVED
It's only a problem if you're doing silly things like:
- building skyscrapers that must be precisely balanced
- simulating aircraft aerodynamics
- balancing monetary systems (sadly, it can't be scapegoated to explain where all of our tax dollars have been going...)
Though a much different principle is taught, this analogy connotes a similar theme to that in "the fallacy of the broken window" (Bastiat). Namely, that some economists speak of economic benefit being derived via the actions of a young boy who breaks a window (because the owner of the window must then pay the glazier for a repair, which presumably has a "stimulative" effect upon the local economy - neglecting the potential uses the owner would have put that money toward in the absence of the accident), but most universally identify it to be a crime if the glazier had in turn paid the young boy a small fee to break the window in the first place.
No, but underhanded efforts to squeeze out any competition ARE illegal.
Read the article, FRiend.
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