EU Court Withdraws €1.06 billion Intel Antitrust Fine

[stimpy88]

Well , to be fair , i think that IF the information of Jim's AdoredTV video about this case is accurate , AMD is somewhat responsible for the outcome that we are seeing today.
According to this video

(which i think is one of Jim's greatest moments) during the European Commission's verdict ,many details had remain hidden from the public ,because certain EU laws were giving Intel(and other companies involved) the right to hide from the public , documents that could be considered as "confidential" by those companies (17:24 of the video) .
According to the video , this would change when the New York Attorney General also filed a (Federal antitrust) lawsuit against Intel and in that upcoming trial the public would be informed about all these confidential documents (19:40 of the video) .
It was at this moment that AMD chose to settle with Intel ,thus not only ending the Federal case before the public knows about all the facts , but also leaving the EU's case legally compromised as it was proved with the recent news we read in this TPU thread.

I love Jim, it's such a shame that he hasn't the willpower, health or whatever to keep doing this kind of journalism (which he gets trolled relentlessly by tech fanbois for). Without him, we have no credible, non-biased, not bought and paid for tech (ad revenue, samples etc) journalists left anymore. All I see are YouTubers pretending to care about gamers, fashionably moaning about miners, whilst stacking their sets high with free RTX, Ryzen & Intel sample boxes. Some have so much that they sell them on the side. I guess Hardware Unboxed, TechTeamGB and Gamers Nexus stand out as decent, but the're not investigative journalists, looking for the inside scoop on the inner workings of the tech industry. Mind you, there are less than a handful of real investigative journalists in the entire Western world nowadays.

 

[TheLostSwede]

I love Jim, it's such a shame that he hasn't the willpower, health or whatever to keep doing this kind of journalism (which he gets trolled relentlessly by tech fanbois for).

You know this isn't his full-time job, right?
Met him a couple of years ago, nice guy.

 

[stimpy88]

You know this isn't his full-time job, right?
Met him a couple of years ago, nice guy.

Yeah, I only know a little about his private life, I understand he has been having more health problems recently. I think these days it's impossible to be an independent journalist and be able to earn enough money to live, so it doesn't surprise me that he has a "real" job to make ends meet. I really like the guy, and I hope he returns one day, we need him and what he does. I just know he would be the one to blow up this current "mining" stuff, and expose what's really going on, and the shady deals going on in the background.