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Intel Attacks Qualcomm for Allegedly Stifling Competition (tomshardware.com)
In an official statement Thursday, Intel called out Qualcomm for allegedly continuing to pursue its use of patent lawsuits and threatening lawsuits against its own customers and competitors even as multiple antitrust agencies have found Qualcomm to be violating competition laws with these tactics. From a report: The statement from Steven Rodgers, Intel EVP and general counsel, said that despite Qualcomm being fined by multiple governments around the world over its abuse of patents against other companies, the company continues the same aggressive legal strategy against its partners and competitors. This, Intel said, will only lead to higher prices for consumers and less innovation.
According to Intel, Qualcomm's goal is not to vindicate its IP rights, but to drive competition out of the market completely. Intel pointed out that Qualcomm has been fined almost a billion dollars in China, $850 million in Korea, $1.2 billion in the European Union and $773 million in Taiwan over the company's anti-competitive practices. Intel also encouraged everyone to pay attention to FTC's lawsuit against Qualcomm in the United States. The FTC will begin its opening arguments in court on January 4. Intel, who is a competitor of Qualcomm in the wireless modem space, said that it hopes the actions taken by global authorities against Qualcomm will preserve competition in the 5G market.
According to Intel, Qualcomm's goal is not to vindicate its IP rights, but to drive competition out of the market completely. Intel pointed out that Qualcomm has been fined almost a billion dollars in China, $850 million in Korea, $1.2 billion in the European Union and $773 million in Taiwan over the company's anti-competitive practices. Intel also encouraged everyone to pay attention to FTC's lawsuit against Qualcomm in the United States. The FTC will begin its opening arguments in court on January 4. Intel, who is a competitor of Qualcomm in the wireless modem space, said that it hopes the actions taken by global authorities against Qualcomm will preserve competition in the 5G market.
Don't like the way they do business? Stop doing business with them. That's why I'll never buy another Intel-anything, those fucking assholes don't listen or care. I'm glad they get a taste of themselves on Qualcomm's corporate dick.
are you fucking kidding me? fucking intel is complaining about anti-competitive behaviour?
Holy shit, they must really be circling the drain
Remove all patents, let the market sort it out.
They're just mad that Qualcomm is not following the trademarked process of EEE that Microsoft has used forever.
Very funny. Coming from the same company that has been hit repeatedly for anti-competitive behavior, price fixing, and anti-trust actions against a competitor(AMD) and lost every case.
Om, nomnomnom...
Pepperidge farm remembers.
Very funny. Coming from the same company that has been hit repeatedly for anti-competitive behavior,
On the other hand, it does fit perfectly with the "takes one to know one" theory...
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If anyone would know about shady cirporate shit its the guys who created an on-chip OS for the NSA to spy on the entire world.
FUCK INTEL.
THEY OWE US MONEY.
Sayeth the holder of essential patents for the defacto standard called "x86", a standard which is important for the little niche called "Almost all Desktop and laptops"
get in the lab and do some research. Stop being apples lapdog.
This is like a burglar suing me for locking my doors, preventing him stealing my stuff.
x86 isn't such a big deal anymore. Much of the world has moved on from it, especially now that phones and tablets are getting so . . . well . . .fast. Check out benchmarks of Apple's A12x to see how far ARM has come in the world.
Qualcomm is already knocking on Intel's door by partnering with Microsoft to bring their Snapdragon CPUs to laptops, running an ARM version of Win10. They already have lappies with the Snapdragon 850 out there, and once the Snapdragon 8180 hits it could get really . . . interesting.
Intel's complaint officially pertains to modems. Qualcomm has some of the best, if not THE best, cellular modems out there, and some companies like Apple desperately don't want to be beholden to Qualcomm forever. Which is why Apple second-sourced modems from Intel from previous gen phones and will use only Intel modems for current-gen phones (Apple may take their modems in-house in the future). But there is more going on underneath the surface than just modems. Qualcomm is slowing encroaching on Intel's territory, and seriously considered attacking the server room a year ago with an ARM server chip (which they have since abandoned - for now). Intel is struggling with their 10nm node while Qualcomm is happily fabbing away on nodes that are denser and more-performant than Intel's 14nm node. Ditto for Huawei, Samsung, and Apple. All of them could bring ARM products to the table that could erode Intel's marketshare. Intel is trying to escape to the HPC/AI deep learning space. It'll be interesting to see how much market share they cede to ARM in the process.
*grabs popcorn
Intel announces it's upcoming architecture Blacky Pot.
I guess outside of x86 Intel is not that good.
Intel was FINE with cheating the competition when Intel was doing it to AMD. But now that Intel is losing the mobile space, suddenly Intel has this fake outrage over Qualcomm.
Sounds a lot like Microsoft attacking Google over allegedly hurting Youtube performance on non-Chrome browsers.