{"id":37312,"date":"2021-07-02T18:44:54","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T01:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37312"},"modified":"2021-07-05T18:45:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T01:45:23","slug":"ftc-charges-chipmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37312","title":{"rendered":"FTC charges chipmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on Friday it is charging chip supplier Broadcom with monopolizing the market.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/akbsrvbzlmmncvcmnyhllnsslbngmbmwwplzvtgmkkddth_uhyhnnwqwshfqnqfpqmh.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/akbsrvbzlmmncvcmnyhllnsslbngmbmwwplzvtgmkkddth_uhyhnnwqwshfqnqfpqmh.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1625373706881000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFMdg_JJj5Oe1NcCt8vpRnqk9zKTQ\">agency said<\/a>\u00a0the company used exclusive deals to monopolize semiconductor components that are used to deliver television and broadband internet services.<\/p>\n<p>The FTC also put out a proposed consent order for the company that would settle the charges if Broadcom stopped the exclusive deals they were putting their customers in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased to move toward resolving this Broadband matter with the FTC on terms that are substantially similar to our previous settlement with the EC [European Commission] involving the same products,\u201d a spokesperson for Broadcom said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37313,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37312\/revisions\/37313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}