Intel Risks It All (Again)
When Paul Otellini, Intel’s (INTC) famously reserved CEO first heard the news, he got quiet. “The madder I get, the quieter I get,” he says, an important footnote for any Otellini user manual. He was hushed via press conference by Neelie Kroes, the European commissioner for competition.
“Intel used illegal anticompetitive practices to exclude essentially its only competitor and thus reduce consumer choice in the worldwide market for x86 chips,” Kroes read last May from the 542-page decision on an antitrust case charging Intel with unfair trade practices.
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