Intel's worst nightmare
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| Dwindling market share isn't the No. 1 chipmaker's only problem,
| says Fortune's Roger Parloff. It needs to mount a fierce defense to
| AMD's epic antitrust lawsuit.
|
| [...]
|
| In June 2000 a federal judge found that Microsoft had illegally
| maintained its monopoly on PC operating systems and ordered BillG
| ates' company split in two. A year later, however, portions of the
| ruling were overturned, and Microsoft then settled-avoiding a breakup.
|
| [...]
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| In the days ahead we'll be hearing much about this suit-the most
| important antitrust case since U.S. v. Microsoft (Charts) in 1998-anda
| bout related probes of, or actions against, Intel now taking place in
| the European Union, Japan, and Korea.
|
| [...]
|
| What is monopolistic behavior?
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| Yet the suit is commanding the attention of the global business community
| for another reason too. It's seen as a bellwether for a mega-issue
| roiling competition law today: Assuming for the sake of argument that
| Intel did do what AMD alleges, is that illegal?
|
| For while there is wide consensus among antitrust experts about the
| harmfulness and, consequently, illegality of collusive activity among
| competitors - e.g., cartelization, bid-rigging, price-fixing-there is
| no comparable agreement about conduct by one very big competitor acting
| alone.
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| What's still largely undefined is precisely when tactics by such a
| player cross the line from vigorous competition into unlawful preservationo
| f a monopoly (the American term) or abuse of dominance (the Europeant
| erm). The ambiguous outcome of the U.S. government's case against
| Microsoft - whose practices were condemned, but narrowly, and punished,
| but lightly - has spurred more debate than it has quelled.
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http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/08/21/8383598/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote
http://tinyurl.com/pjjux
Also see:
German anti-trust officials received complaint against Intel
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| The Financial Times claimed the FCO has in its possession a letter from
| a Saturn employee that implied Intel gave the retailer financial
| incentives not to stock AMD-based PCs.
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/07/12/intel_german_fco_complaint/
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| ...PC makers remain loyal to (read: scared of) Microsoft.
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http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2006/0918/102e.html?partner=yahoomag
As Novell's CEO recently said:
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| Microsoft Corp is using scare tactics to exert pressure on PC vendors
| not to explore the potential of desktop Linux, according to Novell
| Inc president and COO, Ron Hovsepian
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http://www.commentwire.com/article_news.asp?guid=2044AB5A-59CA-4EC3-AD3F-73DF7BC4F8E0
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