AMD sues Intel for monopolistic practices
Get ready for thunder and lightning, because this battle could be of epic proportions. AMD has filed a 48-page suit in U.S. District Court in Delaware alleging that Intel has used a monopoly in the chip market to coerce and bribe PC manufacturers in order to prevent potential customers from working with AMD. While many are thinking "this is news?", AMD's laundry list of complaints paints a picture of a conniving, law-breaking Intel that will stop at nothing to keep AMD out of a fair race. The suit, as described by AMD's PR, alleges that customers such as Dell, Sony, Toshiba, Gateway, and Hitachi have taken Intel-exclusive deals in exchange for "outright cash payments, discriminatory pricing or marketing subsidies conditioned on the exclusion of AMD." In particular, AMD notes that their share of business with Sony dropped from 23% to zero within a year, and has remained at zero since this time. They claim that Sony was paid millions of dollars for this.
