Written by Nicolas Gridelet
Published on July 18, 2008

URL: http://www.behardware.com/news/lire/18-07-2008/#9839

Almost a year after sending a first formal complaint to Intel, the European Commission for Competition, has indicated that the company has received a second which reinforces and supports the first.

The main difference with this one is that the services of Nellie Croes, Commissioner for Competition, now accuse the Santa Clara firm of having given consubstantial price reductions to several OEMs on the condition that they do not purchase laptop CPUs from its rivals. In short, Intel supposedly put a lock on the laptop market.

The company now has eight weeks to send its response to authorities in Brussels and following this period they can respond orally to accusations. With the €16 million fine inflicted by South Korean trade authorities last month and the opening of an official investigation by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, some are saying that this summer will be a hot one for the creator of x86...