In September 2017, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the European Union’s (EU) top court, ordered the General Court to re-examine the € 1.06 billion fine levied on Intel Corporation (Intel), the world’s largest semiconductor company. In 2009, Intel was fined by the European Commission (EC) for alleged anticompetitive practices. The EC alleged that Intel had abused its near-monopoly in the computer processor market by coercing manufacturers to purchase all their chips from it instead of rivals such as Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). The EC found that between October 2002 and October 2007, Intel aimed to exclude AMD from the x86 microprocessors market. The Commission also found that Intel had given exclusive rebates to personal computer and server manufacturers such as multinational computer technology companies Dell , HP , Lenovo , and NEC . Intel had also made payments to Media-Saturn on the condition that that the latter sold PCs with only Intel microprocessors. Thus, the EC ruled that the rebates offered and payments made by Intel made it difficult for other manufacturers to compete with it, reducing the choice for consumers..

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