[VladTheImplier]

Different legislations. The EU has no real power over those companies.

Basically they said please be nice, please pay us 1B.

[IAmEveryone]

Bullshit. The EU has exactly the same powers as the US government regarding antitrust enforcement against multinationals corporations.

But, as in the US or any other society ruled by law, antitrust fines and all other executive decisions can be challenged in court. That’s what Intel did, and the case is still pending.

[ByThyGrace]

Is the EU Court of Justice particularly slow? Does this kind of trial take a lot of time?

[fgonzag]

If you were ordered to pay 1 billion, you would probably hire whole attorney firms to file appeal after appeal.

[navaati]

Have they no assets on EU soil that can be seized from them ?

[shrewduser]

they have a lot of fabs in germany.

[dgacmu]

They have none in Germany, but do have some in Ireland: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabric...