Rumors show that Intel is going to be fined by the European Commission on Wednesday because the company has broken European antitrust rules, and they will be forced to review their rebates plans for computer manufacturers. Intel is the biggest chip manufacturer for computers, and the European Commission will announce a final decision on Wednesday, a decision which could see Intel paying a lot of money due to their marketing strategy.
Many national competition authorities have said that Intel broke the European antitrust rules. Now they are in talks with the European Commission over the Intel fine, and they will adopt a final document after all stakeholders agree on it. Intel officials have declined to comment as these are only rumors, also EU officials declined to make any statements as these are only rumors and they are concentrating on a final decision.
The problems started back in 2000 for Intel as AMD, another computer-chip manufacturer, has filed a complaint to the European Commission due to the fact that Intel were blocking AMD’s access to the computer market. AMD said that Intel were providing rebates and they were selling them below cost, so that AMD chips won’t make it to the computer manufacturers. It is said that the EU added many charges to Intel in 2007. Also, last year was a tough year for Intel as the EU added more charges. The EU said that Intel has paid a retailer to remove AMD-based computers from their store shelves.
We have to wait until Wednesday for a final decision. The European Commission can fine Intel with 10% of the company’s annual revenue, and Intel has announced a $38 billion revenue last year.
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Hi Fried Post staff,
I just read your article about water fueled cars. Who was your author or researcher for this…..? Goodness sakes! Like you, I’m no scientist, but in the past research I have done so far, there are a few questions I’d like you to answer here …like, why do you think they are perpetual motion? They are not.
You say:
Water-fueled cars are perpetual motion machines that violate the first law of thermodynamics which says that “the increase in the internal energy of a system is equal to the amount of energy added by heating the system, minus the amount lost as a result of the work done by the system on its surroundings” which means that the energy output from an engine can’t exceed the energy input.
So? The cars aren’t perpetual motion vehicles. The laws are mute.
In the second law of thermodynamics, a brilliant guy called Kelvin said that “it is impossible to convert heat completely into work” which means that an engine or a process cannot have an efficiency of 100% therefore it cannot convert all its energy into work
Who said they were doing that 100%, anyway? No one.
therefore a perpetual motion machine is impossible to exist. I’m no genius, but I understand the laws of thermodynamics and probably the inventors and scientists know more about it than me, then why are they trying to build water-fueled cars? Well, maybe because they are trying to change something in this world by designing new and cleaner technologies to power our cars.
You may have answered your own question here.
In order to develop engines that run on water, scientists tried to improve the electrolysis of water which is a process that splits water in hydrogen and oxygen using electricity. The problem is that you cannot do electrolysis
(oh, really? Says, who? They do it in beauty salons.)
and to have enough energy to power the car and then to do more electrolysis as it violates the rules of thermodynamics.
What are you talking about? Do you work for the oil co’s?
Why don’t you get this done to your car and then write an article about it? Wouldn’t it be cool if you were wrong and got more gas mileage? Your insinuations and scientific jargon are …..just that… blah, blah, laws of thermodynamics, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Instead of scientific comparisons that don’t apply, why don’t you get real scientific proof? I’d really like to know.
There is an old saying: The one who says it cannot be done, should not interrupt the one doing it.
I’m glad you are at least tracking Mr. Klein and others in progress, rather than saying they can’t do it. Thank you. We used to think the old cartoon of Dick Tracy with his watch communicator was impossible. I guess it was, then! ha! Time will tell.
Keep researching dear one…..Nonny (grandmother) Pam