Intel guilty in EU for manipulating the market against AMD?

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Look, if you think Intel will simply soak up millions in losses its you who don't quite understand anything about business & finances.

actually, i work for a multi-billion dollar multi-national buerocracy, so i do understand international business on a large scale. and if intel is SO opposed to taking losses, why didn't they incease thier prices to cover the 90% profit loss they took in Q4?

http://albany.bizjournals.com/albany...2/daily72.html

There is no old or new formulas there's simple and plain business=P

so businesses today are run the same way they were in 1800? there is NO-ONE in the world willing to look at thier business model and make some adjustments? there is no business evolution? please, tell this to toyota and come on back with their response.

I don't need to work for AMD or Intel to know that! Your milk, grains and etc.. is called "Commodities"

my milk and grains? where!?! i've been looking all over for those! actually processors, memory, toasters, televisions; these are considered commodities.

AMD would be stupid to not follow suite when they need higher margins. The EU's competition committee knows AMD can't recover at current price levels and this is a move to get prices raised for them.

AH-HA!!! so the conspiracy has been revealed! this is all a plot to undo intel and raise amd to their rightful place as market leader! very clever of you to figure it out.

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.

This is TRUE too!

so now amd would not raise prices because intel will? which is it?

The under lined part shows you don't pay attention too well. I just pointed how some of Intel prices are Flat when they should be going down. Others like the Q6600 are up (part not in short supply according two different VARs).

when did the q6600 price go up? also, i7 and x58 parts will not see a price reduction for some time (when volume starts to pick up). and i think this is the part you don't understand: prices are lowered on products that sell very well. the more of a certian product you sell, the less it costs you to make it. the concept is called "eceonomies of scale." and that is why intel WILL NOT raise prices because of the fine. if they raise prices (aside form bolstering amd's sales) they will reduce their sales making it more expensive to make the products. then they'd have to raise prices again. then even fewer people would buy their products.... and so the cycle of self-destruction goes. intel is aware of this process and will make business adjustments to avoid it. if this fine results in anything at intel, it will be layoffs. because profit = cost - price.