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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (260204)	5/15/2009 9:16:44 AM
From: JCB01	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

That all depends on what your definition of the "spirit of the law" is. Everybody has anti-trust laws. Some methods of competing that are legal at 30% market share become illegal at 70% market share. That's just the law; "dura lex sed lex". And you could be right; Intel may find itself in the position of subsidizing a competitor that currently has an inferior product just about across the board - through no fault of Intel's. As far as I can tell the bottom line is this: Intel may have misbehaved at a time when AMD was mounting a challenge. If the judgment is upheld, they will be fined; worse, AMD will probably be able to sue Intel for damages in various European courts. Most damaging, I think, would be some sort of consent decree that forces Intel to share its x86 IP.... for free. If all this were to hit, I would say OK it's bad - but it's temporary. Intel still leads the world in process development - they can set a pace no one else can match. And they don't just have some of the finest designers - they have teams of the finest designers. So publish a standard discount schedule that's used for everybody - then continue to develop and innovate. Advertise the heck out of what you are doing so people won't want to be stuck with somebody else's old inferior technology. In a few years AMD would be down to working the niches with VIA.