The European commission has decided to seriously strike some large corporate to demonstrate that the EU authorities are considering suspected monopoly cases as serious. German police forces have carried out a search in Intel headquarter in Munich as well as in headquarters of the founder's partners (including distributors and resellers)
If this is not really new, the scale of the police actions must have been a surprise for Intel executives, and no doubt AMD is most likely thinking of ways to benefit from such problems affecting its historical competitor.
[translation by Linathael]