Intel Attacks Qualcomm for Allegedly Stifling Competition (tomshardware.com) 40
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.
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They are just pissed because they lost the patent lawsuit to Qualcomm
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Intel has historically been open to sharing technology. That's why AMD exists. That's why there have been many other manufacturers of x86 compatible CPUs (IBM, NEC, Texas Instruments, Cyrix, NexGen, VIA, IDT, Rise, Transmeta, STM, Fujitsu, OKI, Siemens, Intersil, C&T, UMC, etc.). If they were as anti-competitive as you falsely claim, then that would have never happened.
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Imagine if Disney ran the patent office.
All progress would have halted shortly after the wheel?
Pot Kettle Black (Score:1)
They're just mad that Qualcomm is not following the trademarked process of EEE that Microsoft has used forever.
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What are you complaining about, silly?
Volume discounts and rebates are standard business practices: [fortune.com]
LOL, TIL Dell is still "in business" I thought it went belly up years ago.
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Volume discounts and rebates are standard. Withholding them if someone also sells the competitor's product crosses the line.
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Not to mention rigging their compiler to add code to detect competing compatible CPUs and downgrade to the slowest code path. Proven by patching the detection code out and running the code flawlessly at much better performance on AMD processors.
That's funny... (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re: That's funny... (Score:1)
Let's not pretend either company has any moral high ground. All corporations are out to make as much money as possible, including options that have penalties or are illegal but result in higher net gains.
That's capitalism folks, don't pretend you care about consumers. You only care about consumers when it increases your investors profit margins or your yearly bonus. All the PR work is simply strategy to gain a stronger market foothold. Switch the company's positions and it'll be nearly identical.
Checks out (Score:2)
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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On the other hand, it does fit perfectly with the "takes one to know one" theory...
Or the old 'every center of power creates it's own monster that fuels it's demise' to paraphrase.
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And no narcissistic corporation has a heart or soul. Wintel is now LoseTel because they couldn't tell that their oil well in the basement would start to run dry with ARM, SoCs, and good RF designs. Now their competitor is QC, but also Softbank.
Intel: There are no tears for you, and your PR line is BS and sounds plainly stupid coming from the ex-king of CPU monopolies.
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But they're right, QC are complete assholes, like many large dominant companies, like Intel themselves have been for decades.
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