{"id":220956,"date":"2017-07-22T09:34:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T07:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=220956"},"modified":"2017-07-22T09:35:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T07:35:07","slug":"qualcomm-trying-to-kill-competition-with-its-monopoly-intel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/220956-qualcomm-trying-to-kill-competition-with-its-monopoly-intel.html","title":{"rendered":"Qualcomm trying to kill competition with its monopoly: Intel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intel has accused Qualcomm of trying to kill competition in the mobile chip manufacturing space with its monopoly position, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/intel-accuses-qualcomm-of-trying-to-kill-mobile-chip-competition\/\">CNET reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The allegation comes via a public statement that Intel made to the US\u00a0International Trade Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Its case is specifically about Qualcomm trying to kill competition from Intel, it said, claiming that it is the chip giant&#8217;s only remaining competitor in the market for mobile phone processors.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/220502-apple-joined-by-smartphone-makers-in-legal-battle-against-qualcomm.html\">Qualcomm&#8217;s legal action against Apple<\/a><\/strong>, Intel said that the lawsuit was not really about stopping the alleged infringement of Qualcomm&#8217;s patent rights.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rather, its complaint is a transparent effort to stave off lawful competition from Qualcomm&#8217;s only remaining rival,&#8221; Intel said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This twisted use of the Commission&#8217;s process is just the latest in a long line of anticompetitive strategies that Qualcomm has used to quash incipient and potential competitors and avoid competition on the merits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Apple and Qualcomm have been fighting over patents since January when the iPhone maker filed a lawsuit in the United States claiming that Qualcomm didn&#8217;t give fair licensing terms for its technology.<\/p>\n<p>Qualcomm brought a counter-suit against Apple, saying that it deliberately crippled its chips in the iPhone\u00a0so they would not perform better than Intel processors.<\/p>\n<p>This resulted in\u00a0Apple withholding payments from its contract manufacturers for the royalties they owe under their licences with Qualcomm.<\/p>\n<p>Intel said that Qualcomm forces\u00a0equipment manufacturers to pay exorbitant royalties for every device they sell, regardless of whether it contains a Qualcomm chip.<\/p>\n<p>Any disagreement, and Qualcomm threatens to cut off the equipment maker&#8217;s supply of chips, Intel said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/220068-qualcomm-loses-court-bid-to-stall-664000-daily-fines.html\">Qualcomm loses court bid to stall $664,000 daily fines<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intel has accused Qualcomm of trying to kill competition in the mobile chip manufacturing space with its monopoly position<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":209838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[605,131,3524],"class_list":["post-220956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-apple","tag-intel","tag-qualcomm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220960,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220956\/revisions\/220960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}