Intel Under Fire in New York over Antitrust Accusations
Posted 11/04/09 at 12:45:15 PM by Paul Lilly
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It seems like everywhere Intel turns it's being sued over alleged antitrust violations. The latest lawsuit comes from New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who claims Intel threatened computer makers and made a series of illegal payments to coerce them into using its chips. In other words, the same accusations AMD has been harping about for a good many years now.
"Rather than compete fairly, Intel used bribery and coercion to maintain a stranglehold on the market," Cuomo said in a statement. "Intel's actions not only unfairly restricted potential competitor, but also hurt average consumers who were robbed of better products and lower prices."
Intel has faced similar lawsuits earlier in the year, and in May, the European Commission hammered Intel with a record $1.45 billion fine for antitrust violations. Intel is currently appealing the ruling.
The latest lawsuit is significant because it's the first formal antitrust action against Intel by any government agency in the U.S. in more than a decade, the New York Times reports. Intel has been under investigation by the FTC since 2008, but that hasn't led to any formal proceedings.
"These are separate investigations, but it would be very surprising for New York Sate to go off on its own without being fairly confident the FTC would pursue Intel as well," a person familiar with the state's investigation told NYT.
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Submitted by TechJunkie on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 3:07pm
Think of intel as a lobbyist for congress clone in which money and power usually gets them what they want. Nobody is suing intel just to sue intel. They must have a pretty damn good reason to take on a giant like this and I say good for them.
Submitted by Trooper_One on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 11:58am
Why would Intel care about these petty lawsuits - they can easily absorb the hundreds of millions of legal cost and drag it throug the years in court.
Meanwhile, AMD continues to plummet (not because of super bad products) and if given enough time, they would go bankrupt and Intel would have monopoly they strive to get. Sure there's Via, Texas Instruments, etc... but they're not really competing in the same field on the business and consumer PC fronts.
It's really too bad for the consumers.
To many Questions
Submitted by Ntldr on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 10:50am
If the suit that is being filed against them now is the same as AMD filed but from a different source I would be watching AMD they could be the ones doing all the underhanded stuff because they are falling behind and by spending money on court fees and all that goes with it would slow Intel's R&D, and production there by giving AMD a perverbial chance to catch up. I am not saying Intel is perfect or not guilty, but come on most of the claims are coming from AMD and people they seem to have under their belt.
Submitted by lien_meat on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 11:05am
Except there are documented claims by OEMS and the like of the bribery taking place.
At the time when all this started, AMD cpus were definately not inferior as they are now. It was the time of the p4 vs the athelon xp's.
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Submitted by MeTo on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 10:39am
It's about time somebody in America grew some Ba**'s.
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