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Intel Accuses Qualcomm of Trying To Kill Mobile Chip Competition (cnet.com)

Posted by msmash on from the tussle-continues dept.

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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  1. If only Qualcomm had integrity like Intel by JoeyRox · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:If only Qualcomm had integrity like Intel by hairyfeet · · Score: 2

      Don't forget blocking Nvidia from making chipets for Intel chips thus driving Nvidia out of the motherboard business, rigging benches with ICC, and large payments to several gaming companies to get them to use ICC to compile their games. I'm personally betting for their next trick now that Threadripper is tearing them a new asshole they will release a "super cripple" ICC that will make Ryzen chips perform worse than Netburst, after all nobody has bothered asking whether the games Intel is supposedly beating Ryzen with are compiled with ICC, wanna bet that they are?

      If there was ever a company that needed to be broken up because of illegal market rigging? Its Intel, they make Gates era MSFT look like it was run by the Care Bears. How the CEO of Intel didn't end up in prison only shows that there is one set of laws for rich people and one set for poor.

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  2. Do tell, Intel... by DRJlaw · · Score: 4, Informative

    Do tell, Intel, do tell.

    All for robust competition in mobile... so long as it is only in mobile baseband.

  3. Hahahahaha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2

    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.

  4. Re:JAJAJA by Desler · · Score: 2

    This is about cellular modems.

  5. Which Qualcomm product... by unixisc · · Score: 2

    ...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.