Jademz
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Posts: 0 | Intel
on Wednesday, May, 13, 2009 9:50 PM
I just read this in the news: "Intel hit with $1.45B fine"
The justification? JORDAN ROBERTSON wrote:Kinsella, the specialist on European antitrust law, said "loyalty rebate" programs are common, but become a problem when dominant companies use them. In a similar European case, tire maker Michelin was fined in 2001 over its rebate program in France.
Kinsella said the accusation that Intel paid companies specifically not to use AMD's products would set this case apart from others. |
Wow. Just like an American company to pay another country to use their product. And you know what? Taxpayers used to be the ones who paid for them to do so.. Thanks to the US government. So who's really at fault? Beats me.. Guess the EU got "FED up". LOL.
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Qix77
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Posts: 2,991 | Re: Intel
on Wednesday, May, 13, 2009 11:02 PM
Since I'm able to access my email from my ISP today, ZDnet sent me a newsletter with an article about that.
My take on the whole concept is that Intel really needs to learn to calm down a bit. They've been in the core-rate-ghz lead for a while now and they need competition to keep improving their products and their prices.
I'm not really surprised by it though. Although I'm a long time consumer of AMD processors, I am thinking i7 core this time around. It just makes me uncomfortable when something like this happens.
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Daddyo
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Posts: 456 | Re: Intel
on Wednesday, May, 13, 2009 11:07 PM
It sounded like a war between AMD & Intel, where they got tired of big $$ Intel greasing AMD's potential customers to not use AMD chips. Sounds pretty monopolizing when there's only two sources of chips.
It's fairer to just drop your chip prices all around, but then there's probably a problem at some point with that too since Intels has way more resources available than AMD (I think)...
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MutoidMan
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Posts: 2,232 | Re: Intel
on Friday, May, 15, 2009 9:17 AM
It's Core i7 for me the next time I upgrade, which hopefully will be in the next year or so. My single-core AMD FX-57 just isn't cutting the mustard as well as it used to, so I'm looking forward to some multi-core, hyper-threaded goodness!
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Jademz
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Posts: 0 | Re: Intel
on Friday, May, 15, 2009 9:48 AM
Yea I'd like one of those for sure, but since the price drop I'm more than happy getting a board that has1600-2000Mhz frequency for the RAM and a AM3 Q9650 quad core - last I looked that was the best one they had under the i7 but it was only 330 bucks.
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Compucore
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Posts: 4,450 | Re: Intel
on Friday, May, 15, 2009 10:48 AM
For me personally if it is either Intel or AMD base processors and it is working fine for what I need to do for the most bang for the buck. I always look for what I need. If neither can do what I am looking for then it is upting the ante to something else that is better and slightly more expensive that will do the job. If it means using a risc based or sparc based processors then so be it. Since I do use both Intel and AMD's over here on seven computers. (That is including my laptop that is intel based.) They both work fine even if I would get the top of th line CPU. order abortion pill abortion pill buy online where to buy abortion pill
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