EU Regulator Raids Intel Offices

stevedcc writes "BBC news is reporting that Intel's offices in Munich, Germany have been raided by European Union competition regulators. From the article: 'The Reuters news agency reported that the Commission also raided computer retailers on Tuesday including Germany's Media Markt, which sells PCs with Intel central processing units but not those made by AMD. Regulators have the power to fine Intel up to 10% of annual turnover if they find it guilty of stifling competition. Intel has said it is "confident" it had acted lawfully.'"

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Re:The line forms to the right

[RightSaidFred99]

Investing in AMD doesn't. It promotes competition and a more efficient market. You're effectively giving charity to AMD. They can't win your money by making the best product, but you're convinced that it will somehow serve you in the long run. I don't know how you can rationally make such an analysis, but I certainly wouldn't bet on it if I were you. Your presumption seems to be that your dollars are going to go towards improving AMD. Do you have any evidence of this? How do you know your dollars aren't going towards the big-wigs in the company? Or huge inefficiencies? Or the stockholders of the various companies AMD buys from time to time?

And we all know how well the government busts up monopolies, so if you have any vested interest in CPU's, support AMD. You can't bust up an effectively atomic unit, but anyway... AMD has been around a long time, and their products and infrastructure aren't going anywhere. Let's say AMD really goes down the drains and Intel doubles their prices. What do you think IBM, Samsung, or HP (or others) are going to make of that? If I were them I'd think that maybe the CPU market can bring in a lot of money if they can buy AMD and fix their problems.