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Re:Qualcomm Is Accused of Violating Antitrust Rules in Europe by mtgx on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @10:16AM (#10696785)
I don't disagree with this, but this is exactly what Intel has been doing, too, especially with the Atom platform in mobile. And Intel has a track record of abusing anti-trust laws, so why hasn't anyone given a second look to Intel's practices again? Maybe Intel is just better at hiding it in "deals" with OEMs.

> Europe’s antitrust officials in Brussels said that Qualcomm, one of the world’s largest makers of chips, had abused its dominant market position in the region by offering financial incentives to smartphone and tablet manufacturers that agreed to buy equipment solely from Qualcomm.

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Re:Qualcomm Is Accused of Violating Antitrust Rules in Europe by pgeorgi on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @11:19AM (#10697279)
Intel, as in http://ec.europa.eu/competition/sectors/ICT/intel.html?

I think the antitrust regulators mostly act on complaints and given the time frames they work in, it seems to be rather complex, so they don't take on too many of them. So I guess it's just that nobody complained too loudly about Intel in recent years.

EU regulators also have to deal with domestic cases that don't typically end up on HN. Check http://ec.europa.eu/competition/elojade/isef/index.cfm

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Re:Qualcomm Is Accused of Violating Antitrust Rules in Europe by digi_owl on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @10:28AM (#10696881)
Could be because Intel has an actual fab in Ireland, while Qualcomm, like AMD, are fab-less chip companies.

And i'm not sure if Intel has offered such deals, or simply been selling their Atom chips below cost.

There may also be some issue with Qualcomm sitting on some radio patents. Samsung had to use Qualcomm chips in some Galaxy variants to function on Verizon networks, for instance.

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Re:Qualcomm Is Accused of Violating Antitrust Rules in Europe by rasz_pl on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @03:13PM (#10699103)
Intel woke up and slightly adjusted its strategy after Qualcomm Chinese antitrust case blew up.
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