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The Federal Trade Commission announced Wednesday that it is suing Intel, claiming that the chip giant has illegally used its dominance to stymie competition and to strengthen its own monopoly.In so doing, says the FTC, the company has robbed consumers of both choice and innovation in microprocessors, including those that outshone Intel's own: "Intel's anticompetitive tactics were designed to put the brakes on superior competitive products that threatened its monopoly in the CPU microchip market."
The agency's complaint alleges that Intel used a series of threats and rewards to convince top PC makers such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM to not purchase computer chips from the competition. Intel also allegedly prevented computer manufacturers from marketing PCs with non-Intel processors.
In the UK, Intel have just started a new public awareness campaign. I expect they are running something similar across much of the globe and I doubt the timing is coincidence - they were probably expecting this and maybe there's worse to come.
Kaled.
[marketwatch.com...]
