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1 year agoThe 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
I got my PS2, with GTA3, for Xmas. No memory card though, so I stayed up all night to play it, not realizing I could just left it on. I bought the memory card 3 days later, when shops reopened, the PS2 was never shut down.