• Dreadino@feddit.it
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    1 year ago

    The fine was 1b, 10 years ago. Nowadays chips have a geopolitical importance, so they lowered the fine to keep one of the most important player happy. Intel is finalizing contracts for billions here in Europe to build chip factories.

    This was a smart political move, not a mathematical operation