FTC Introduces New Orders For Intel; No Bundling

eldavojohn writes "Today a decision was handed down (PDF) from the FTC that underlined new guidelines for Intel in the highly anticipated investigation. Biggest result: the practices Intel employed, like bundling prices to get manufacturers like Dell to block sales of competitors' chips, must stop. No word yet on whether or not Intel will face monetary fines from the FTC like they did in Europe over the same monopolistic practices."

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Also I don't think that's AMD's problem

[Sycraft-fu]

Plenty of companies sell AMD computers. The thing is they are usually their lower end line. The reason is that AMD just can't compete with Intel's products in terms of price, performance, and power usage on the higher end. Even now they don't have anything that is a solid Core 2 competitor, and Intel has moved on to the Core i lineup.

AMD's real problem seems to be that they only do budget well, and Intel does that ok too. You get in to midrange and up and it is all Intel all the time.

Re:Non-issue. Intel will just re-word their contra

[Locutus]

Jane you ignorant slut.
FYI, not every company is a monopoly so they don't have the power to control the market and therefore are allowed to make those kinds of deals. Monopolies can not do that. Different game rules when you are a monopoly.

On that bit about AMD, are you kidding? Do you think HP is going to switch 100% of their Intel based systems to AMD? It's not so easy to just change and so many start with a few models first and grow into the product lines.

LoB