Haakon,<br>What I saw (in a recent Slashdot, which I ought to be able to find) was the idea that an Intel compiler disables it's own highest levels of optimizations if it detects that the host processor is not Intel. The complaint is based on that I believe. <br>
<br>FWIW, I imagine that if an automobile engine detected poor octane in the fuel, it might throttle down the maximum speed of the car; but if it did so after detecting a competitor's brand of gasoline, it could be considered anti-competitive. But of course IMNAL or however we announce we ain't lawyers so CGS (cum grano salis).<br>
Peter<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:33 AM, Håkon Bugge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:h-bugge@online.no">h-bugge@online.no</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
In <a href="http://www.ftc.gov/os/adjpro/d9341/091216intelcmpt.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.ftc.gov/os/adjpro/d9341/091216intelcmpt.pdf</a>, there are allegations against Intel, such as "20. Intel’s efforts to deny interoperability between competitors’ (e.g., Nvidia, AMD, and Via)<br>
GPUs and Intel’s newest CPUs".<br>
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I was unaware of this. Anyone know what kind of interoperability we are talking about here?<br>
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Håkon<br>
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