FTC began a formal antitrust investigation against Intel
The Federal Trade Commission C SHA (FTC), as reported by Associated Press, began formal antitrust proceedings against the corporation Intel, AMD that the company accuses of using illegal methods of competition.
According to AMD, Intel Corporation to put pressure on its partners to force them to abandon procurement processors competitor. In doing so, according to AMD, in the course went bribery, exclusive agreements and other methods. Three years ago, Japanese authorities have concluded that Intel to prevent the growth of the market share AMD has used methods that violate local laws. And this week for violating anti-monopoly legislation on Intel fined 25 million dollars Fair Trade Commission of South Korea.
Now in specialists to deal FTC. If the American authorities talent for Intel use illegal methods of competition, the corporation may be imposed large fines. However, the investigation apparently is not delayed by one month.
In a corporation Intel, commenting on the formal start of proceedings, said that cooperating with the FTC since 2006 and during this time provided the governing bodies of thousands of documents. Intel stresses that now the Federal Trade Commission C SHA will be able to access not only to information the corporation itself, but also other parties to the documents relevant to the proceedings.
In addition, Intel insists that the business practices of the corporation fully fit in American laws. Intel notes that currently exists in the market processors highly competitive environment, as evidenced by the fact that since 2000 the prices of microchips fell by more than 40%.
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