EU Commission impose fines to the company's leading hardware, Intel Corp.., Of 1.06 billion euros (U.S. $ 2.12 billion) on Wednesday, 13 May 2009. Section, utilizing Intel dominasinya in the microchip market to forestall their competitors illegally.
As quoted from the daily The Straits Times, the European Union (EU) accuse Intel apply discounts on computer processor units that rival Intel tersingkir. Intel dominates the market worth 22 billion euros for their products called the x86 CPU market share with 70 percent in the period of five years and considered to have violated anti-monopoly commission rules EU industry.
Anti-monopoly commission said, Intel has been using the discounts that manufacturers of personal computer (PC) to buy all or nearly all of their stock CPU company based in Santa Clara, California, United States this.
The Commission also accuse Intel computer company to pay to stop the launch of products that contain the microchip x86 owned competitors. Intel also allegedly paid to be a leading electronic retail store with a computer chip they made. The Commission ordered Intel to stop the practices that are in violation of EU regulations.
The EU has conducted an investigation against Intel since receiving complaints from rivalnya, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), 2000. Penalties will apply to the Intel is greater than the fines be of value to the Microsoft 899 million euros last year.
At that time, Microsoft does not behave cooperative anti-monopoly commission to the European Union. However, Microsoft accumulate total fines worth 1.676 billion euros and the monopoly of the negotiations are still ongoing with the commission which is located in Brussels, Belgium this
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