Donnie27 is partly right and partly wrong IMO. Sure, Intel could pass the cost to the consumers but it would probably render a slight dip in sales if they did assuming the fine is a big one that would actually be noticeable to Intel (such as the Danish taxes of what, $500million?). If Intel was to raise the prices by lets say $15-20 on all CPUs, AMD probably would be able to sell a lot more chips which is probably what they would want to since that equals bigger market share, instead of raising prices.