FTC Opens Formal Antitrust Investigation of Intel

andy1307 writes to tell us that according to the New York Times, The Federal Trade Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation of Intel. Reversing the decision of former FTC chairperson Deborah P. Majoras, the new chair William E. Kovacic is pushing the investigation to look into Intel's pricing policies. "Since it will almost certainly be many months before the commission decides whether to make a case against Intel, as European and Asian regulators have already done, the investigation could mark an important early test for the next administration on antitrust and competition policy."

Comments

Re:Intel is a monopoly?

[Dogtanian]

If Intel is guilty of keeping other processors out of machines by being anti competitive, they are going to see some sanctions and fines. If the senior management were likely to get thrown in prison, could we make jokes about "Intel Inside"?

Sorry... :(

Re:Intel is a monopoly?

[Anarke_Incarnate]

Yeah. They would be shown some new backdoors and have their interfaces expanded to accept all sorts of new peripherals.

Re:Intel is a monopoly?

[morgan_greywolf]

no one is saying you have to buy an x86 cpu. SPARC and PPC work and do a good job. If Intel has solidified a market dominance that's pushed out OTHER architectures, that's more to do with Microsoft than it is to do with Intel.

Hey! Stop ruining our Intel-bashfest with such irrelevant things as "facts" and "common sense"!

Major buzzkill, man.