EU fines Intel $400 million again for abusing its dominant position to suppress AMD
EU fines Intel $400 million again for abusing its dominant position to suppress AMD
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EU fines Intel $400 million again for abusing its dominant position to suppress AMD.
The European Commission, the EU’s antitrust regulator, said today that it has reimposed a fine of 376.36 million euros (approximately US$402.6 million) on Intel for abusing its dominant position in the PC chip market to suppress competitors.
As early as May 2009, the European Union found Intel guilty of monopoly and imposed a fine of 1.06 billion euros.
The EU said at the time that Intel gave rebates to PC manufacturers such as Dell, HP, NEC and Lenovo in order to allow these manufacturers to purchase Intel chips and thereby suppress rival AMD.
However, in early 2022, the European Union’s General Court overturned the European Commission’s decision to impose a fine, saying that the European Commission’s analysis was incomplete and could not determine based on the necessary legal standards that Intel’s rebates could have or were likely to have anti-competitive effects . .
The European Commission said today that the latest fine decision was based on payments Intel made to computer manufacturers HP , Acer and Lenovo between 2002 and 2006, requiring them to stop or delay the launch of certain products using rival x86 CPUs.
The European Commission also said that the court had confirmed last year that these payments constituted an abuse of market position, but it decided to cancel the entire fine (€1.06 billion) because it was not clear to what extent the fine was related to these actions.
This time, after it was found that Intel “violated EU antitrust law and engaged in a series of anti-competitive behaviors aimed at excluding competitors from the relevant market,” it decided to re-impose a smaller fine (376.36 million euros) on Intel. .
