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The FTC veut wants to force Intel to open itself to competition

By crispin. Original by Lionel - 23/12/2009 06:00:00 CET - Category: PC - Source: PC Inpact

In its crusade against Intel, the FTC seems to want to do everything to oblige the foundry to open part of its market to competition. The large recipient of this procedure will certainly be NVidia. Indeed, the FTC seems to want to force Intel to make it possible for its competitors to interface their products with its processors. It is precisely at this point that Intel blocked NVidia since only the successor of the 9400M can be grafted onto the Arrendale processors, the successors of Core 2.
Another point that must also drive Intel up the wall relates to the X86 licences. The company is currently holder of the main patents concerning the X86 instructions without which it is impossible to manufacture a compatible processor. Currently, only NVidia and Via have such licences that enables them to produce chips ready to carry out the same code as the Intel processors, and Via seems not to want this to be opened with other competitors. One imagines that NVidia, who pontificates about the computing power of these graphics chips, would be delighted to have such a licence. It would allow them to implement in their products sufficient instructions to ensure complete compatibility so that the GPGPU can play the role of a powerful co-processor.
In short, the FTC wants to play the part of a policeman so that the competition can play a full role and that Intel is obliged to return to behaving like one of the competitors rather than as the conductor of an orchestrator that defines the market and who use this to keep their dominant position. Those who still may have doubts about this irrefutable fact  have only to recall that the processors where Intel is without competition are infinitely more expensive than those where AMD has a presence. This is particularly in the case of the mobile platforms, thus Apple and of course us are forced to pay the (very) high prices. 

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