According
to a report on Forbes, the E.U. Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes, was
asked to formally charge Intel on grounds of illegal business tactics. Kroes was
asked by a number of European Union investigators that have been on the Intel
case since 2000. At that time, AMD filed complaints about Intel that claimed
Intel monopolized its business in several European regions by causing grief to
system builders.
The original AMD reports claimed that Intel disallowed certain vendors to have
their usual discounts if purchases of AMD products exceeded 20-percent of the
vendor's overall purchase. DailyTech previously reported that Intel was in
headlines for even bribing vendors not to carry AMD products. The original
report by Financial Times Deutschland also noted that Intel carried out similar
actions within the U.S.
