Intel reportedly reserved $ 3 billion in 2019 to competitively block AMD
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cryohellinc
Never happened before, and there it is again!
Petr V
Waste of money.
Dimitrios1983
Yup I made a comment on here while back or at tech spot, gotta love their shady business ethics.
asturur
Well, while this is all to be confirmed, in case is abuse of dominant position can be punished.
What would make me really sad is that 3 billion spent on research would pay more to everyone.
Neo Cyrus
Called it. I knew they'd do this shady BS again. They haven't even paid up for the last time yet, have they? And that was such a tiny fine relative to the near-apocalypse they caused in the CPU market.
Just think about it, where would we be now if AMD had lost just a little more and went under? $500 locked quad core chips that are lower in IPC than what we have now... with toothpaste between the die and heatspreader.
Edit: Wrote HSF instead of heatspreader.
Exodite
I mostly find it weird, even incomprehensible from my own standpoint.
Obviously this could all be made up, it's all too easy to believe Intel doing shady stuff again so there's a receptive audience for this kind of thing.
Assuming this is in some way true, though not necessarily in as bad a way as last time AMD were doing better than Intel, my question would be why? Why offer incentives rather than just lower prices to compete? Sure, I get the points about lower prices making Intel seem more "budget" - or more accurately less "premium" - and that lowered prices would affect a larger spectrum of their market. Ie. they couldn't milk consumers as much if they dropped prices rather than gave OEMs incentives.
But to me it seems obvious that the people that care about these things, meaning the enthusiasts, already know Intel's positioning and the people who don't... well, don't.
The risk just seems too high compared to a more straightforward price competition.
I'd argue that Intel's last fine were a couple of zeroes too low but regardless, if they were to be caught doing anything even remotely shady again I'd find it appropriate for the courts to break up the company and start putting people in jail rather than discussing fines.
Of course the cynic in me would consider that Intel did their due diligence in risk assessment and realized that even if they were caught it'd at worst be another slap on the wrist and piddling fine to be paid a decade later. *shrug*
Hopefully this is all made-up bs.
sneipen
Another case i find interresting for same utuber is how nvidia seems to manage to "steal" freesync. So freesync has been replaced with nvidias Gsync compatable.
Richard Nutman
They need to discount $3B just to match the performance/price ratio of AMD.
H83
Maybe i´m misunderstanding this but why is this illegal??? From what i understand Intel is simply discounting their prices, something we all wanted and asked before. Shouldn´t this be read like AMD forces Intel to cut prices agressesivly to compete???
Athlonite
Cyberdyne
It's not illegal. Why would it be? You guys are overreacting.
It's simple competition. If your competition makes a better product for the price, you either need to make a better product or lower your price. Their products are very similar at this point, so you lower the price.
Intel (allegedly) is willing to toss out 3 Billion dollars worth of profit to make it happen. Makes sense considering making and selling CPU's is what they do.
Honestly the robbery is their old prices, the new HEDT CPU prices actually make sense now.
Exodite
anticupidon
After the last 2 years of vulnerability issues, milking the last architecture to complete dryness, rushed CPUs and requiring new motherboards and use of low quality thermal compound what is the reason of buying Intel?
I know, they will " fight" AMD in order to offer more value to the customers.
This is a circus, Intel. The one where Goliath farts and tries desperately to say it is David's fault for the foul smell.
Go home Intel before you lose the last drop of professionalism which you had in the computer business environment.
kings
Cyberdyne
H83
TieSKey
MegaFalloutFan
Cyberdyne
I can't believe people are still falling for AdoredTV's witch hunt.
Loophole35