The empire of kickbacks is eroding (see links).
Intel shell to be imploded Feb. 25
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| It will cost $1.3 million to demolish the building.
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| Intel once planned a design center downtown, but abandoned the
| project during the tech downturn in 2001.
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http://www.statesman.com/news/content/business/stories/realestate/02/7intel.html
Many years of under-the-table collaborating with a few giants, for the
satisfation of an iundutry that could artificially inflate prices
(overprice) and take away people's freedom away. It's verging its end, also
on the software level.
Related:
Investors sue Dell on payments from Intel: WSJ
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| An investor lawsuit seeking class-action status accuses Dell Inc. of
| improper accounting in its relationship with chip giant Intel,
| according to a media report published Thursday evening.
|
| [...]
|
| The suit alleges that Dell received at times as much as $1 billion
| a year in "secret and likely illegal" kickbacks in the form of
| "e-Cap" or "exception to corporate average pricing" payments"
| from Intel to ensure that Dell used no other chip supplier,
| according to The Journal.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/investors-sue-dell-payments-intel/story.aspx?guid=%7B400315B0%2DE375%2D4920%2DB300%2D784220BEFE35%7D&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo
Who do You Trust with Your Computing?
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| Helios was speaking out against trusted computing (TC) and Digital
| Rights Management (DRM) that is humming softly at the hardware and
| software level inside YOUR computer right now. That's right! Chances
| are, it's already made it on a chip on your and my motherboards...but
| it's there. Soon, if what can happen does happen...we'll all be so
| very unhappy at being told how we can and can't operate our PCs.
|
| Some of you may be asking, "what the heck are you talking about?
| They can't tell me how I can use my computer inside my own home".
| Unfortunately, that statement is false. DRM chips are already on a
| majority of motherboards and even built into some processors (viiv
| anyone?). All it takes is a flip of the switch and you'll do what
| Microsoft or any other company that wants to manage your rights
| for you tells you to do whether you like it or not. That is, ofc
| ourse, unless you use Linux :) Linux has always been about
| choice...we choose to compute in ways WE want to...not ways
| that are defined for us.
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http://linux-blog.org/index.php?/archives/176-Who-do-You-Trust-with-Your-Computing.html
Intel Plans to Close S. Korea R&D Center
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| In September, Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel announced the
| elimination of 10,500 jobs -- about 10 percent of its work force
| -- through layoffs, attrition and the sale of underperforming
| business groups as part of a massive restructuring.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070105/skorea_intel.html?.v=1
E.U. investigators want formal charge against Intel: report
http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7bC96B4158-E6F5-47DB-8164-A9E9141F7C5F%7d&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo
EU antitrust experts seek charges vs Intel-source
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| The Commission has been investigating chip-maker Intel for six years
| to see if it acts unfairly to keep its dominance over rival Advanced
| Micro Devices.
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20070117:MTFH01539_2007-01-17_10-23-02_BRU005303&type=comktNews&rpc=44
Intel profit down 39% as price cuts, spending crimp margins
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| Intel Corp. late Tuesday reported fourth-quarter profit dropped 39% as
| the world's largest chipmaker cut prices and boosted investment as it
| attempts to beat back a challenge from smaller rival Advanced Micro
| Devices Inc.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/intel-profit-drops-39-price/story.aspx?guid=%7BF022C863%2D1C0B%2D4F8B%2DB0C5%2D1695AFFC6810%7D&dist=morenews
http://tinyurl.com/322onq
Henri Richard: AMD's bad guy
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| At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Richard, at a
| breakfast meeting, did his duty again. He said the Intel Inside
| program and other marketing promotions Intel has used over the
| years have killed profitability for PC makers.
|
| "The industry was saddled with a very successful marketing
| program that sucked all of the profit out of the industry," he
| said. In China, PC makers can avoid these programs and "not
| become a hostage."
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http://news.com.com/2061-13053_3-6148717.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
http://tinyurl.com/yf475k
AMD spells out what it wants from Intel
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| The two companies sessions have "defined the universe in dispute".
| Intel has declined to produce documents that could show
| limitations on customers to buy chips from AMD, quotas for
| chip buying, and "other coercion, including threats of
| retaliation or retribution, for doing business with AMD
| (or not doing sufficient business with Intel)."
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36736
AMD claims key victory in Intel antitrust suit
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| AMD filed suit against Intel in June 2005, charging Intel with
| employing anticompetitive practices in the sale of PC chips.
| Intel has denied the charges.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7b4FC79547-9443-4262-BF1E-5AFC9FCDB046%7d&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo
http://tinyurl.com/ynfnkz
AMD says court seeks data from Intel in antitrust case
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| Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said a U.S.
| federal court had overruled Intel Corp.'s
| objections in an ongoing antitrust litigation.
|
| The court has ordered Intel to produce documents and other
| evidence bearing upon its "exclusionary conduct" outside
| United States, AMD said in a statement.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/061228/amd_lawsuit_intel.html?.v=1
Court tells Intel to hand over foreign documents in antitrust case
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| In June 2005, AMD filed a massive antitrust lawsuit against Intel, accusing
| the larger CPU maker of abusing its dominant position in the worldwide PC
| market to prevent AMD's CPUs from making significant inroads. The suit
| alleges that Intel customers like Toshiba, Gateway, Dell, Hitachi, and
| others agreed to exclusive deals with Intel in exchange for "cash payments,
| discriminatory pricing or marketing subsidies conditioned on the exclusion
| of AMD."
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061217-8436.html/
Intel to lay off more people in Europe
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| Our European sources are howling that Intel plans to get rid of an
| additional chunk of workforce and this time it plans to target those
| in Europe.
|
| [...]
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| Intel already fired 10,500 people and it seems that is not the end of it.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34597
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.
|
| [...]
|
| 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?
|
| 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.
|
| 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
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