Intel to Settle With FTC, Maybe Ease Up on Nvidia

[lejay]

[citation][nom]joytech22[/nom]I lol'dAnd Intel are becoming more and more like that greedy blue/white fruit, they want more and more AND more profit.Although that's what businesses do.. if, for example, it cost's intel $200 to make a i7 980X extreme, i wouldn't charge any where near $1000 for it, probably $400, i mean double the profit of initial costs is pretty sweet.[/citation]

Luckily R&D is free.

 

[eddieroolz]

About time someone/something took Intel down a few notches. This kind of anti-competitive behavior should've been slammed long ago.

 

[dEAne]

Well that's business, AMD should know that.

 

[roofus]

[citation][nom]70camaross396[/nom]I dont see anything wrong with what intel is foing with the Atom Processor and chipset bundle. lots of companies do it all the time. if you buy X, then we will include Y at a discount. look at insurance companies. If you by car insurance and home owners insurance from the same company, they will discount both of them. Intel is doing the same thing here. [/citation]

This is a little different. They were actually offering OEM's a cheaper price for the CPU with their chipset than buying the CPU by itself I believe. That is a little different than offering a bundle price or a discount.

 

[ethanolson]

Why is there a battle like this? Intel should be able to do whatever the heck they want.

 

[BulkZerker]

*cliffs*

Intel gets told to stop chaarging for their bare cpus vs a all in one solution.

Ion was the best thing to happen to thee atom chipset period, allowing the cpu to doso many things (mainly htpc duty as well as aa low end low watt gaming solution. Both of which I wouuld have bought had I not already pieced together something with amd parts) thaat would otherise take a $300 lump of parts, and that excludeed case and other accessories. Intel was playing dirty pool because they knew their embeded solution sucked, nd they got caught.

 

[ravewulf]

this could curb Intel's use of volume discounts when selling Intel CPUs together with its in-house graphics chips

Sweet! Potentially less crappy integrated graphics used by OEMS (one can only hope)

 

[Guest]

real problem = that intel's processor & chipset was cheaper together than the processor by itself.

This is the definition of anti-competitive behavior, and just proves the marketing guys in charge during the pentium 4 days just got shifted over to the netbook division

Its a real shame because they could have bundled the chipset for an extra couple of dollars and it probably wouldnt have been anticompetitive, and people could have paid an extra $30 at retail for a vastly better netbook, or kept the cost low and gotten the bare essentials.