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Another Antitrust Lawsuit Against Intel
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Thu 05 Nov 2009
The EU has already fined Intel heavily for its antitrust behavior and other nations like Japan have in the past taken a long hard look at Intel's x86 monopoly. Now, it looks like the gate is open for more legal action. This time, NY's Attorney General has filed suit against the chipmaker for abusing its dominant market position and paying off OEMs to avoid the other chipmaker in town, AMD's products. Some rather surprising details revealed that Dell for instance, was deriving "one-third to 116 percent" of its profits from Intel's rebate program. It's certainly quite a damning statistic and there's more in the 87-page court document. Ars Technica - Intel has been fighting a vicious antitrust battle in Europe for years, is battling AMD in US court, and now New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has opened up an American front in the Intel war by filing an antitrust suit against the chipmaker. The allegations in the suit will be old hat to veteran PC market watchers, because there's almost nothing in the 87-page filing that Intel hasn't been accused of at least once over the past decade, either openly as part of the EU proceedings, in the course of AMD's antitrust lawsuit, or discretely in the form of gossip at industry conferences.
For the summarized version, click here. Or you can click here for the court document.
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