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AAI Congratulates FTC on Opening of Intel Investigation
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| On August 29, 2007, the American Antitrust Institute urged the Federal Trade
| Commission to undertake an investigation of Intel Corporation’s alleged
| anticompetitive activities in the global microchip processor market.
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| Today, in the wake of an announcement that the Korean Fair Trade Commission
| has fined Intel approximately $26 million for abusing its dominant position
| in the South Korean market, after the New York Attorney General’s Office has
| opened an investigation, and as we await further processes already well under
| way in the European Union, it was reported by the New York Times and
| confirmed by Intel that the FTC has formally opened an investigation.
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http://www.antitrustinstitute.org/Archives/intelftc1.ashx
Maybe the FTC tiger grew a claw and a tooth after Deborah Majoras left...?
(with her husband's conflict of interests)
Recent:
Microsoft dropped Vista hardware spec to raise Intel profits
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/03/01/microsoft_intel_vista_capable_emails/
Intel "paid vendors not to use AMD"
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| AMD filed suit in Delaware against Intel in June of 2005, accusing its
| competitor of abusing its monopolistic position. The complaint charges that
| customers were forced not to use AMD processors. At that time the Japanese
| anti-trust body was investigating Intel and the EU Commission also had its
| eye on Intel's behaviour.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/107495/from/rss09
It's the Year of Discovery at AMD – Discovery of Intel Irregularities, That Is
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| Of course, South Korea isn't the only government to indict the company over
| its market dominance; in 2005, Japan ruled the silicon giant in violation of
| Japanese antitrust laws, a decision Intel declined to contest. The European
| Union is currently investigating Intel's practices — including February's
| surprise raid on the firm's German offices — as is the New York Attorney
| General's Office, which opened an investigation in January. Meanwhile, the
| U.S. Federal Trade Commission — primarily former-antitrust defense counsel
| and now-chairman Deborah Majoras, who ignored calls from Congress and fellow
| Commissioners to launch an investigation — has been reluctant to pursue the
| matter, though an "informal probe" is said to be underway.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/its-year-discovery-amd-%E2%80%93-discovery-intel-irregularities
Related:
Negroponte says Intel should be "ashamed of itself"
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| He is furious that Intel's CEO Craig Barrett called the One Laptop a
| gadget. The Negroponte initiative is caught in the middle of a vicious
| fight between AMD and Intel, he said.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=397337
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