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New York Attorney General sues Intel for antitrust violations

Source: VentureBeat

Nov 04, 2009

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While Microsoft went down in flames on antitrust issues long ago, Intel had until recently escaped the ire of government regulators. But today, the New York Attorney General filed an antitrust suit against the world’s biggest chip maker.

The lawsuit echoes allegations made by the European Union, which in May levied a $1.45 billion fine against Intel for setting up deals with PC makers and retailers that excluded its main competitor, Advanced Micro Devices, from getting market access. Such actions happen all the time, but companies with monopoly power aren’t allowed to throw their weight around like this under antitrust laws.

“Intel has engaged in a systematic worldwide campaign of illegal, exclusionary

conduct to maintain its monopoly power and prices in the market for x86 microprocessors, the

‘brains’ of PCs,” the lawsuit by New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo says. “By exacting exclusive or near-exclusive agreements from large computer makers, in exchange for payments totaling billions of dollars, and threatening retaliation against any company that did not

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