An Intel Inside sticker is seen next to a Windows XP sticker on an Acer Netbook in Encinitas, California in this April 13, 2009 file photo. A lawyer for chip giant Intel said on May 13, 2009 the firm had not yet started discussions with the European Commission on how to comply with an antitrust ruling by the EU regulator. The Commission, executive arm of the 27-nation European Union, fined Intel a record 1.06 billion euros ($1.45 billion) on Wednesday and ordered it to halt illegal rebates to computer makers aimed at restricting their use of chips from Advanced Micro Devices. Reuters Pictures 6 months ago

An Intel Inside sticker is seen next to a Windows XP sticker on an Acer Netbook in Encinitas, California in this April 13, 2009 file photo. A lawyer for chip giant Intel said on May 13, 2009 the firm had not yet started discussions with the European Commission on how to comply with an antitrust ruling by the EU regulator. The Commission, executive arm of the 27-nation European Union, fined Intel a record 1.06 billion euros ($1.45 billion) on Wednesday and ordered it to halt illegal rebates to computer makers aimed at restricting their use of chips from Advanced Micro Devices.

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  3. Intel Corp. CEO Paul Otellini show off chips on a wafer built on so-called 22-nanometer technology at the Intel Developers' Forum in San Francisco, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009. Those chips are still being developed in Intel's factories and won't go into production until 2011. Each chip on the silicon "wafer" Otellini showed off has 2.9 billion transistors.
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  5. In this Aug. 19, 2008 file photo, Intel Corp. Senior Vice President and General Manager Pat Gelsinger speaks at conference in San Francisco. Gelsinger, 48, is leaving the world's largest chip maker to manage information infrastructure products at Hopkinton, Mass. -based EMC.
  6. FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2009 file photo, Intel logos are shown at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Intel Corp. raised its third-quarter revenue forecast above Wall Street's expectations Friday, Aug. 28, 2009, citing strong demand for its chips and giving another signal that business is improving for one of the world's biggest technology companies.
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  9. EU Health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou, poses next to a Greenpeace installation, in front of the European Commission and Council headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009. Farmers and environmental group Greenpeace handed over a petition signed by 180.000 people calling for the EU to reject the authorization of Bayer Genetic Manipulated rice, which is currently being reviewed by the Commission.
  10. Spanish farmer Fernando Jose Llobell Bisbal, left, talks with EU Health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou, in front of the European Commission and Council headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009. Farmers and environmental group Greenpeace handed over a petition signed by 180.000 people calling for the EU to reject the authorization of Bayer Genetic Manipulated rice, which is currently being reviewed by the Commission.
  11. A Thai farmer hands over a petition to EU Health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou, right, in front of the European Commission and Council headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009. Farmers and environmental group Greenpeace handed over a petition signed by 180.000 people calling for the EU to reject the authorization of Bayer Genetic Manipulated rice, which is currently being reviewed by the Commission.
  12. Polish President Lech Kaczynski (L) holds the EU's Lisbon Treaty as Polish President Donald Tusk (2ndL), Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt (C), whose country holds the EU rotating presidency, President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso (2ndR), President of European Parliament Jerzy Buzek (R) stand behind at the presidential palace in Warsaw October 10, 2009. Lech Kaczynski signed the European Union's reforming Lisbon Treaty in a ceremony Saturday, leaving his ultra-eurosceptic Czech counterpart Vaclav Klaus as the only holdout.
  13. Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero leaves an EU summit in Brussels, Friday Oct. 30, 2009. The European Union is seeking to maintain a united stand on climate change Friday by giving leeway to poorer member states to pay less into global climate aid fund.
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  15. Finland's Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen arrives at the EU council headquarters for the second day of the European Union Leaders Summit in Brussels October 30, 2009.
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