by Geri
Economic authorities inquiry against Intel has been finished
This time, Intel should not pay money, but must do a few action. In the past, Intel was penalised with huge amount of money, because they offered reduced prices for corporations who are banned AMD’s CPU’s from the market. Now Intel must modify some contracts wich will favor to its rivals.
In the recent, Intel has denied some rights from Nvidia and other corporations to create own GPU based on the Atom architecture. Now Intel must manufacture PCI-E based products too in these devices for 6 years. The agreement does not contain the current Nvidia vs Intel lawsuits about Quick Path Interconnect technologies. Intel claims that Nvidia using these patents without correct license.
Intel also forced to extend license treaties with VIA, and authorities has been deleted every limitation from the contracts, which was limited VIA in any activities, including merging with other companies.
Intel also must warn the programmers in the Intel’s C++ Compiler’s read-me, because the compiler can only use the Intel CPU’s properly.
The judgment still not answers a lot of questions. Who waited the x86 technology’s liberation, shall be sad now, because the measures seems only temporally and semblance.
