Francis, Paul and All, ..................... INTC @ 68 1/2
From the referenced article,
zdnet.com
"But that's not all. According to sources familiar with the case, the agency is conducting an even broader investigation looking into possible anti-competitive practices in the company's Intel Inside marketing campaign, the company's integration of peripheral functions into chip sets and the degree of control competitors claim Intel has over the motherboard."
Who are these sources familiar with the case and the FTC agency that keep on "leaking" this information to the press. I can think of many companies and individuals that would like to slow down Intel's inovative progress by using the FTC, i.e. IBM, AMD, CPQ, NSM, Intergraph, Fuchi and almost all of the contributors to the NSM and AMD, SI threads. But who really is reporting this to the press?
If the press really wanted to do their job with good investigative reporting, they should examine who? and for what reason? the news media is getting all these news leaks out of the FTC. Certainly, the media must know that Intel is at a severe handicap, unable to defend themselves until specific charges are filed.
It also seems, from reading your referenced article, that the FTC assumes that whatever Intel innovates to maintain a competitive edge, belongs to the "World". Does the FTC really have the view that any Intel innovation is an abuse of monopolistic powers? After all, Socket 7 was the incumbent. All Intel is doing is coming out with a better bus which also makes it more difficult for "clone parasites" to continue to "steal" Intel's intellectual property. (see my post # 0 on the INTC thread.
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