Intel wins lengthy EU legal battle over £880m competition fine

Chipmaker disputed 2009 decision that it abused its market position in case dating back two decades

The US chipmaker Intel has won a long-running battle to quash a fine of more than €1bn imposed by the European Commission for allegedly abusing its market dominance in the sale of computer chips.

In a final ruling on Thursday, theEuropean court of justice upheld an earlier judgment that had quashed the €1.06bn (£880m) fine and partly dismissed the charges of anticompetitive behaviour.

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Intel sued by fired Jewish employee over ex-supervisor’s alleged antisemitism

Plaintiff in New York case says he lost job after complaining that his manager openly celebrated terrorism against Israel

A Jewish former employee of Intel sued the chipmaker on Tuesday, saying he was fired after complaining that the senior executive he reported to openly celebrated antisemitism, Hamas and terrorism against Israel.

The plaintiff, a former vice-president of engineering using the pseudonym John Doe, said Intel fired him on 2 April in a purported cost-cutting move barely two months after assigning him to report to Alaa Badr, vice-president of customer success.

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US orders immediate halt to some AI chip exports to China, says Nvidia

Fellow tech company Intel ‘reviewing regulations’ as timing of move brought forward

The chip designer Nvidia has said the US has told it to immediately halt the export of some of its high-end artificial intelligence chips to China as regulators advanced the deadline.

The restrictions were supposed to come into effect 30 days after 17 October, when the Biden administration announced measures to stop countries, including China, Iran and Russia, from receiving advanced AI chips designed by Nvidia and others.

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Gordon Moore, Intel co-founder who predicted rise of the PC, dies at 94

Engineer, whose microchip forecast became known as ‘Moore’s Law’, foresaw mobile phones and home computers decades before they existed

Intel Corp co-founder Gordon Moore, a pioneer in the semiconductor industry whose “Moore’s Law” predicted a steady rise in computing power for decades, has died at the age of 94, the company announced.

Intel and Moore’s family philanthropic foundation said he died on Friday surrounded by family at his home in Hawaii.

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Intel apologises to China over Xinjiang products and labour directive

US chipmaker responds to backlash after telling its suppliers to avoid region at centre of human rights abuse allegations

The US chipmaker Intel has apologised for telling its suppliers not to source products or labour from Xinjiang, a province that human rights groups and governments including the US allege uses forced labour, after facing a backlash across China.

Intel, which derives more than a quarter of its $80bn (£60bn) in annual revenues from the Chinese market, apologised to the people of China and its local partners on Thursday for telling suppliers to avoid the region in accordance with restrictions imposed by “multiple governments”.

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Intel faces backlash in China after banning products and labour from Xinjiang

Chinese social media users call for boycott of US chip maker after it issues directive to suppliers over human rights concerns

Intel, the US computer chip maker, is facing a backlash from China after telling its suppliers not to source products or labour from the region of Xinjiang.

Intel said it had been “required to ensure that its supply chain does not use any labour or source goods or services” from Xinjiang in accordance with restrictions imposed by “multiple governments”.

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Exposing the Russian Hacking Fraud by Publius Tacitus

You can be forgiven if you are confused about whether or not the emails from the DNC were taken by Russian hackers or lifted by an insider who in turn sold the electronic files to Wikileaks or was the work of someone else. While we do not have any clear evidence about the identity of the culprit or culprits, there are some undisputed facts that call into serious question that the DNC email debacle was a Russian Government Intel operation.

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Intel ‘intentionally hid’ Meltdown and Spectre from US cyber security officials

CHIP GIANT Intel intentionally hid the discovery of the Meltdown and Spectre chip security flaws from US cybersecurity officials, according to a bunch of tech companies who wrote to lawmakers on Thursday. In a number of letters seen by Reuters , the companies wrote that Intel didn't make the issue known to the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team, or US-CERT, until they leaked to the public.

Bannon expected to skip House Intel testimony, sources say

Bannon was ordered to return to Capitol Hill Tuesday morning after a marathon meeting with the committee behind closed doors last month, where he refused to answer the committee's questions about his time working for Trump during the transition or in the White House. Bannon declined to answer the questions in light of executive privilege concerns, a claim of privilege Rep. Adam Schiff, the panel's top Democrat, called "breathtaking."

Lawmakers dispute ‘vindication’ for Trump in Intel memo

Democrats on Sunday argued that the release of a controversial memo accusing the Justice Department of surveillance abuses does not vindicate Donald John Trump Schiff: Nunes gave Trump 'secretly altered' version of memo Davis: 'Deep state' existed in '16 - but it elected Trump Former Trump legal spokesman to testify to Mueller about undisclosed call: report MORE Trump made the claim that the memo "totally vindicates" him in the Russia investigation in a tweet following the memo's release Friday.

Dems: House Intel Panel Votes to Release GOP Memo

The GOP-majority House Intelligence Committee voted Monday to release an explosive memo allegedly accusing the Department of Justice and FBI of misusing their authority to get a secret surveillance order on an ex-Trump campaign aide. Rep. Adam Schiff of California, who announced the action at a news briefing, complained the Republican members voted against also releasing a minority memo that rebuts the data in that written by panel chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif.

Buchanan/Nunes Duels the Deep State – Nunes Duels the Dee…

Nunes Duels the Deep State By Patrick J. Buchanan Tuesday - February 6, 2018 That memo worked up in the Intel Committee of Chairman Devin Nunes may not have sunk the Mueller investigation, but from the sound of the secondary explosions, this torpedo was no dud. The critical charge: To persuade a FISA court to issue a warrant to spy on Trump aide Carter Page, the FBI relied on a dossier produced by a Trump-hating British spy, who was using old Kremlin contacts, while being paid to dig up dirt on Donald Trump by Hillary Clinton's campaign.