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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."
Balderdash.
Let's say Company X sells 100k computers a year. Let's say Intel offers them a discount of 10% if they order 20k or more processors, 15% if they order 40k or more, and 25% if they order 100k processors.
Now this company decides it's going to sell other computers using different products and drop their order down to 80k. Now, of course, their discount drops to 15%. This is a standard discount business process, and there's nothing wrong with it even for a "monopoly". Now, if the company still bought 100k processors and Intel dropped their discount because they _also_ bought other chips, you might have a point. Does anyone have any actual evidence of this happening?