Is "raided" the right word?A complaint filed by rival AMD in 2000 has finally culminated into the raiding of Intel's European offices, in search of evidence of unfair trade practices. AMD better have their facts straight, especially with all of the legal drum-beating that they are doing in Intel's direction as of late.
It's now a little more than a year since the Commission wrote to European PC vendors asking about Intel's business practices, kicking off a new round of investigations into a complaint filed in 2000 by Intel's microprocessor rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). In 2002, the Commission declared that complaint "not founded," but never officially closed the investigation.
After the Japanese Fair Trade Commission served Intel, I don't doubt that Intel cleaned house at their other subsidiary companies. The EU hasn't come off as easy-going, having slapped Microsoft with a $600m fine not too long ago -- a small scratch in the polish.
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