On January 26, the European Court of Justice ruled to revoke Intel's antitrust fine of up to 1.06 billion euros, and the European Commission has not yet said whether to appeal.
The fine of more than €1 billion was issued by the European Commission in 2009. Chipmaker Intel has been accused of abusing its dominance by issuing loyalty kickbacks to PC makers such as Dell, HP, NEC and Lenovo in exchange for a number of partnership opportunities to limit rival AMD (Advanced Micro Devices).
Intel's first appeal against the fine was dismissed in 2014. But in a judgment made public on Wednesday, the court ruled that the antitrust regulator's economic analysis was incomplete and unable to determine whether the kickbacks had caused the anti-competitive effects specified by legal standards, and ruled to revoke the fine.
The European Commission said it would study the ruling to consider whether to follow up.
In recent years, the European Commission has frequently exerted efforts to combat Internet antitrust, and the Digital Services Law and the Digital Market Law, which are closely related to the digital economy, have passed the deliberations of the European Parliament.
Among them, the Digital Market Law proposes the concept of "digital gatekeeper", and platforms that abuse their market dominance to carry out anti-competitive behavior can be fined up to 20% of annual revenue.
It is reported that the above two bills will be submitted to the European Council for further consideration on January 31.
Written by: Nandu reporter Huang Huishi
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