South Korea hit Intel with $25.4 million antitrust fine

One thing I never understood about these types of fines is they do nothing. It's like fining a company for dumping radioactive sludge in the river $50k after doing it for 10 years and saving the company 100's of millions. It's almost encouraging the behavior its such a minor slap on the wrist.

This is money intel makes in hours practically. But yet if other companies that say were worth only a few million would be buried by this.

There needs to be some sort of system that fines accordingly based on total company worth, yearly profit or yearly income or something.

If the punishment for doing something like this was say 100 percent of profit for 1 year, if its not a profitable company then the punishment waits until it is. Think that would get some attention and teach the company something? I would think so.

I remember when bill gates was fine 500k for doing some sort of illegal trading with stock of some company. This is a dude who's toilet paper he uses per day probably costs that. Think it really mattered to him? Probably not. Think if they said the fine is 10 percent of your net worth it would of gotten his attention? Hell yeah. Now this would of hurt anyone even bill gates, but it probably wouldn't of buried anyone either.

Same thing with the RIAA suing for 300k for downloading 5 songs over the net. This is for someone who makes 15k a year.

So yeah something is definately wrong with the system everywhere appearently. That antitrust trial in the 90's with Microsoft took years, and did nothing. All because a judge has a big mouth. Think of they said Microsoft your punishment is 3 years with no profit for your behavior it would of done a bit more then dont do it again? I would think so.

Yes, a thread was already created about this.

You can read that thread here.

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The actual case between Intel and AMD is worth Billions, but the Governments are fining Intel as well. It would also make the case stand up alot better if the EU, South Korea and the US government fined Intel on anti-competition charges

More rehash of yesterday's news. Intel was fined a mere pittance that won't affect it. Intel will go on doing what its been doing. AMD will keep on loosing, because that's what AMD seems to be best at these days. Oh yes, the sun will come up in the east again tomorrow. Nothing new, so on to something that's more important.

lol. I'm proud to be a fanboy with him?

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i just dont get it, 25mil for a multi-billion $ company. its like plucking hair; gets your attention the first few moments afterwards you forget about it.

some government should fine intel a billion $ for all the IT waste they dump year by year.

i love intel though , i got a c2q on my rig, yeah!

I wonder what would happen if amd ended the x86-64 license to intel, would anyone really care because most people still use 32bit os'es anyway.

The only affect it would have to intel is the gaming market, maybe the small area of the server market that they own but I think that will pass away anyway when AMD releases the F+ cpu's.

Yea year old thread.

And AMD couldn't technically do that as it would be anti-competative TBH. Even if Intel is bigger it would mean AMD would hold a monopoly on the 64bit market. But the I am sure Intel would just develop its own 64bit that runs x86. Or Itanium would finally take off when 64bit becomes more popular.