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Intel - AMD
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On July 17,
2008
European
regulators
filed fresh
charges
against the
worlds
biggest
computer
chip maker
Intel over
alleged
abuse of its
dominant
market
position.
·
EC accused
Intel
of paying a
leading
European
retailer not
to stock
products
containing
chips made
by rival
AMD.
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It is also
accused of
giving
incentives
to PC makers
to switch to
Intel chips.
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The
Commission
has also
accused
Intel of
paying the
PC maker to
delay the
planned
launch of a
product
containing
AMD chips.
Mission
IAS’2009
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It is not
the first
row between
the US
technology
firm and
regulators
in Brussels.
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Last summer,
the
Commission
unveiled the
initial
results of a
probe that
claimed
Intel
engaged in
anti-competitive
action to
thwart AMD.
·
Brussels
accused the
world's
largest
chipmaker of
giving
rebates to
customers
provided
they bought
Intel
products and
offered
incentives
to companies
to delay or
cancel
products
containing
AMD
technology.
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Intel
Corporation
(NASDAQ:
INTC; SEHK:
4335) is the
world's
largest
semiconductor
company and
the inventor
of the x86
series of
microprocessors,
the
processors
found in
most
personal
computers.
Founded
on July
18th, 1968
as
Integrated
Electronics
Corporation
and based in
Santa Clara,
California,
USA, Intel
also makes
motherboard
chipsets,
network
cards and
ICs, flash
memory,
graphic
chips,
embedded
processors,
and other
devices
related to
communications
and
computing.
Founded by
semiconductor
pioneers
Robert Noyce
and Gordon
Moore, and
widely
associated
with the
executive
leadership
and vision
of Andrew
Grove,
·
Advanced
Micro
Devices was
founded on
May 1, 1969,
by a group
of former
executives
from
Fairchild
Semiconductor,
including
Jerry
Sanders,
III, Ed
Turney, John
Carey, Sven
Simonsen,
Jack Gifford
and three
members from
Gifford's
team, Frank
Botte, Jim
Giles, and
Larry
Stenger. The
company
began as a
producer of
logic chips,
then entered
the RAM chip
business in
1975.
·
Yahoo! was
founded in
1994 by
Stanford
Ph.D.
students
David Filo
and Jerry
Yang.
·
The company
is
headquartered
in
Sunnyvale,
California,
with offices
around the
globe
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