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Intel Accuses Qualcomm of Trying To Kill Mobile Chip Competition (cnet.com)
Intel has jumped into the fray surrounding the Apple-Qualcomm patent spat by accusing the world's biggest maker of mobile phone chips of trying to use the courts to snuff out competition. From a report: The chip giant made the allegation late Thursday in a public statement (PDF) to US International Trade Commission. The commission had requested the statement as part of its investigation into Qualcomm's accusation that Apple's iPhones of infringe six of Qualcomm's mobile patents. Specifically, Intel said, the case is about quashing competition from Intel, which described itself as "Qualcomm's only remaining competitor" in the market for chips for cellular phones. "Qualcomm did not initiate this investigation to stop the alleged infringement of its patent rights; rather, its complaint is a transparent effort to stave off lawful competition from Qualcomm's only remaining rival," Intel said in its statement. "This twisted use of the Commission's process is just the latest in a long line of anticompetitive strategies that Qualcomm has used to quash incipient and potential competitors and avoid competition on the merits."
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Corporations are natural monopolies. Peons compete for corporate favor. That is the order of things.
With their secret back-room payments to Dell to keep AMD out of their machines. The only thing a monopolist hates more than competition is another monopolist.
Do tell, Intel, do tell.
All for robust competition in mobile... so long as it is only in mobile baseband.
If the premise of the lawsuit is true, it couldn't have happened to a nicer company. The company that tried to crush it's competition in every way you can think of including trying to copyright a three digit number.
Qualcomm is innovating. Intel isn't. I see Qualcomm coming out with 5G technologies. What's Intel doing? Nothing beyond incremental improvements to process technology.
Intel? the last competition to qualcomm? this guys havent realized yet that they are not even in the list, intel share of Soc market is almost zero.
I think Allwinner has more market share than intel in the soc market.
News at 11
... does Intel make mobile phone chips? Last time I checked, Qualcomm is only company who makes them.
Yes, Qualcomm is trying to establish a monopoly which is a page from the Intel play book when Intel tried to crush and run their competition out of business, like AMD.
It's terrible when someone uses your own tactic against you. I guess it is time to innovate Intel! You missed the mobile boat and tried to lockup the desktop, too bad no one is using desktops anymore at their primary computing device.
Did AMD go in the corner and cry? No, they innovated and now we have Ryzen!
This from Intel? with a 30+ yr track record of anti-competitive behavior, including:
- dirty tricks re: Compaq and their fast PC bus (https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/07/10/1445211/benchmarking-utility-shows-amd-ryzen-rapidly-stealing-market-share-from-intel) search for "powerhouse".
- operation Crush
- doing anything and everything to kill non-Intel 64-bit chips with Itanium garbage (calling it Itanic is being technically generous).
- over-the-top sales approaches ('marketing supplements' or some such name) to incentivize companies to help perform the above, including vs. purchases of AMD Opterons.
I hope the courts accept their suggestions for proposed remedies, and apply such to Intel for their RICO-like anti-competitive practices.
than Intel. They're having to resort to lawyers rather than competing on a technical level.
...is Qualcomm trying to get Apple or anybody to buy? Apple uses its own CPUs in iPhones & iPads, but uses either Intel's or Qualcomm's cellular modem chips. If they use the latter, they have one advantage: they can use it for Verizon, Sprint or other legacy CDMA carriers whose legacy 2G networks in areas lacking 4G or even 3G are CDMA. If they use Intel's cellular modems, then they can sell it to the rest of the world's GSM markets, whose legacy networks are GSM and where Qualcomm patents are not involved. So what exactly is the Qualcomm-Apple spat about? Is Qualcomm trying to get Apple to use Dragonball CPUs instead of the latter's own A line of CPUs?
As for Intel, why don't they simply license Qualcomm's technology, or have an agreement w/ Qualcomm where Intel would be at liberty to make chips using Qualcomm patents, and in return, they fab chips for Qualcomm? Right now, from what I understand, Qualcomm uses TSMC & Samsung, but they could use Intel too as a fab, and get some of the most advanced processes, and the advantages that come w/ it. It's not like the 2 compete head to head, the way Intel & AMD do.
I remember when Intel tried to kill off desktop chip competition. It was only today...
As if Intel would hesitate to use litigation or the threat of litigation over violation of real or imagined IP rights in effort to attempt to prevent or eliminate competition.
We need to respect people that were the first.
there is no fact supporting that the competitors of Intel were enter8ng a succuessful product line to market since everything that competrs to Intel hints of compatibilities infringing or mimicking Intel. Every corp is trying to steal busines fom Intel, not actually producing to satisfy customers of it's own.
With that obviously being stated above, who would file,monopoly anti-trust charges? It screams it.
Let's sue Intel for the same practices for the past 30 years. Just because today AMD is making a comeback doesn't mean they haven't been in the same dominate position.
So, yea, let's sue everyone with money. The DummyCrap parties way to pay for the future.
Like all those trips to Mars that, oh wait, are NEVER going to happen as of yesterday's news.lol
there is no fact supporting that the competitors of Intel were enter8ng a succuessful product line to market since everything that competrs to Intel hints of compatibilities infringing or mimicking Intel. Every corp is trying to steal busines fom Intel, not actually producing to satisfy customers of it's own.
With that obviously being stated above, who would file,monopoly anti-trust charges? It screams it.
Intel basically killed netbooks by *requiring* them to be crap so they wouldn't compete with their notebook space. Nvidia had a perfectly good chipset with a mid-range embedded GPU that could pair an Atom or low-end Penryn CPU and provide reasonable notebook performance, but Intel used their marketing muscle to kill that business by forcing OEMs to use their own crappy chipset/gpu with low-end CPUs so they wouldn't kill their lucrative notebook business model. Only Apple had enough clout to force intel to sell them low-end CPU to pair with this Nvidia chipset for a MacBook. Eventually Intel had to settle for $1.5B to avoid going to trial over this illegal monopoly anti-trust business tactic.
Then Intel made a deal with Microsoft to cripple the original WinRT. The original developer version of WinRT allowed Win32 executables compiled to Arm instruction set allowing developers of Win32 apps to target WinRT simply by re-compilation. By the time the Intel was done "explaining" things to Microsoft they pulled this feature and required Metro apps by they got to their first WinRT1.0 version (but of course after all office apps were created for WinRT by cross compilation). Of course now with a weakened Intel, Microsoft is back with Win10-ARM (deja-vu).
Nobody was "infringing" anything on Intel here. Intel simply sensed that their business was going to get hurt by their customers favoring these competitive products and used their muscle to freeze out the competitors.
Intel? Good riddance.
The two problems with that are 1) what constitutes "respect" and 2) what is the "respectable" value of being first in a completely arbitrary metrics like the degree of integration, especially if the metrics is rather fine. Praising Intel for the 4004 is a little bit like praising the first person to run 100 meters under 10 seconds. It's a nice piece of trivia but not qualitatively different from breaking any other 100 m record.
Ezekiel 23:20
Intel is in bed with Microsoft to remove competition from other non Microsoft Operating Systems - that is, Linux etc. from being installed on users computers. This is what the whole "trusted computing" concept is all about, nothing to do with security, but to stop competitors. Intel and Microsoft want a nice cosy cartel like Apple has to stop competition. The problem is, our politicians are corrupt, as are the courts. They refuse to do anything about his cartel.
Just this week Microsoft has said they will stop Windows 10 upgrades (except security), on more devices using certain Intel processors. Either buy a new system, or see your machine die.
Take Nobody's Word For It.
Nobody ever accused Intel of making a mobile chip that didn't suck.