New York sues Intel over antitrust charges - Austin American

New York sues Intel over antitrust charges - Austin American

The legal challenges to Intel Corp.'s sales tactics mounted Wednesday as New York's attorney general accused the world's biggest computer chipmaker of using "illegal threats and collusion" to dominate and thwart rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

In a federal antitrust lawsuit, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo accused Intel of using its market prowess to "rule with an iron fist."

Intel's chips act as the brains of about 80 percent of the world's personal computers. Cuomo said Intel made billions of dollars in illegal payments to Dell Inc. and other computer manufacturers and retaliated against those that did too much business with AMD.

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