Intel Is (Finally) Getting What They Deserve...

Intel paid €6 billion to Dell alone — not for better chips, not for faster delivery, just to make sure AMD chips never appeared on a single shelf. When AMD's processors were literally outperforming Intel's in independent benchmarks and still couldn't get into a major computer brand, someone finally called Brussels. What followed was a 24-year legal saga that ended with Intel receiving more money back than they paid in their final fine. You cannot make this up. This video covers Intel's conditional rebate scheme — the mechanism that locked Dell, HP, Lenovo, NEC, and Europe's largest electronics retailer into near-total exclusivity, and the naked restrictions that paid companies to delay, postpone, and cancel finished AMD products. We go through the dawn raids, the €1.06B fine, the decade of appeals that partially worked, and the moment the EU ended up writing Intel a check for €515M in interest. Key events covered: AMD's formal complaint in 2000. HP's internal email ordering staff to hide the AMD cap. Intel's payments exceeding Dell's entire net income in two quarters of 2006. The July 2005 forensic raids across Germany and the UK. Commissioner Neelie Kroes's record-breaking 2009 ruling. The 2022 partial annulment. The 2023 replacement fine of €376.36M. And the final October 2024 ruling that closed the case — 24 years after it started. If watching a trillion-dollar chip company spend two decades arguing in court and still end up paying hundreds of millions for conduct every judge confirmed was illegal is your kind of content, subscribe. New corporate disaster every week.