this is not a minor accounting fraud. I am familiar with the tactics that intel used over the years to intimidate AMD and their chips and they used dell to assault AMD. Had dell not committed this fraud, there would have been more level competition amongst the heavy weights - HP/Dell/IBM etc all who could not compete because dell was taking bribes not to use AMD chips. THese discounts (or rebates) allowed dell to sell computers at the cost price or lower than the other heavy weights - even forcing some out of business, and keeping AMD out of many markets - even at at times when amd was selling superior products at lower prices. Had these crimes not been committed the computer industry would have been much different - AMD would have been a stronger company (who today is struggling - most likely due to these crimes) - having gotten two windows of opportunity to gain market share which was thwarted by the intel/dell collusion and in the process - destroy the competition. IMHO they got off very easiloy 4M$ fines are nothing, they should make jail time and pay significantly higher fines.
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this is not a minor accounting fraud. I am familiar with the tactics that intel used over the years to intimidate AMD and their chips and they used dell to assault AMD. Had dell not committed this fraud, there would have been more level competition amongst the heavy weights - HP/Dell/IBM etc all who could not compete because dell was taking bribes not to use AMD chips. THese discounts (or rebates) allowed dell to sell computers at the cost price or lower than the other heavy weights - even forcing some out of business, and keeping AMD out of many markets - even at at times when amd was selling superior products at lower prices. Had these crimes not been committed the computer industry would have been much different - AMD would have been a stronger company (who today is struggling - most likely due to these crimes) - having gotten two windows of opportunity to gain market share which was thwarted by the intel/dell collusion and in the process - destroy the competition. IMHO they got off very easiloy 4M$ fines are nothing, they should make jail time and pay significantly higher fines.