Re:Intel's "cripple AMD" function
by scott_s on Sunday January 03, 2010 @05:17PM
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As to it being anti-competitive, there's nothing stopping AMD from making their own compiler that produces more optimal code and trusts everyone's processors to work as advertised.
Sure there is: time and money. Huge companies that are near-monopolies have enormous reservoirs of both in comparison to the competition.
What Intel is accused of doing is considered anti-competitive because they are not actually improving their product. Instead, they are using their stronger market position to degrade the value of another company's product. This harms the overall market, and particularly the consumers. Hence, it's illegal.
Sure there is: time and money. Huge companies that are near-monopolies have enormous reservoirs of both in comparison to the competition.
What Intel is accused of doing is considered anti-competitive because they are not actually improving their product. Instead, they are using their stronger market position to degrade the value of another company's product. This harms the overall market, and particularly the consumers. Hence, it's illegal.