{"id":6577,"date":"2010-08-04T15:57:51","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T19:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=6577"},"modified":"2011-01-19T15:50:22","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T20:50:22","slug":"intel-settles-antitrust-case-with-ftc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/08\/04\/intel-settles-antitrust-case-with-ftc\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel settles antitrust case with FTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6578\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/08\/computer-chip-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"computer chip\" width=\"105\" height=\"105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/08\/computer-chip-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/08\/computer-chip-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/08\/computer-chip.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 105px) 100vw, 105px\" \/>In a &#8220;I-never-did-it-and-won&#8217;t-do-it-again&#8221; deal, Computer chip-making giant Intel <a title=\"agreed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/08\/04\/AR2010080403335.html\" target=\"_blank\">agreed <\/a>with the Federal Trade Commission to step back from business practices &#8212; like coercing computer makers not to buy microprosessor chips from rivals &#8212; which allegedly\u00a0stifled competition and deprived consumers of better choices for at least a decade.\u00a0 The &#8220;play nice&#8221; settlement comes on the heels of a $1.25 billion settlement last year with competitor AMD and as Intel continues to contest a $1.45 billion antitrust fine in Europe.\u00a0 Law Professor <a title=\"Keith Hylton\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/bios\/full-time\/hylton_k.html\" target=\"_blank\">Keith Hylton<\/a>, an authority in antitrust law, says the incentives on both sides for a settlement were especially strong in this case.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe FTC&#8217;s claims, which mirrored those of the European Comission, were not well founded in American law.\u00a0 Intel, in spite of having a strong legal argument, had no interest in spending years in litigation against the FTC (along with the European Commission).\u00a0 The obvious result of this mixture of incentives is a settlement.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Keith Hylton, 617-353-8959, <a href=\"mailto:knhylton@bu.edu\">knhylton@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a &#8220;I-never-did-it-and-won&#8217;t-do-it-again&#8221; deal, Computer chip-making giant Intel agreed with the Federal Trade Commission to step back from business practices &#8212; like coercing computer makers not to buy microprosessor chips from rivals &#8212; which allegedly\u00a0stifled competition and deprived consumers of better choices for at least a decade.\u00a0 The &#8220;play nice&#8221; settlement comes on the heels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[3450,637,3451,1901,936],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6577"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7624,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577\/revisions\/7624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}