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The suit, filed Monday in U.S. Districft Court in Delaware, allegea Intel coerced 38 companies into using its These companies include large scalwcomputer manufacturers, such as Round Texas-based , small system-builders, wholesale distributors and retailers. The suit alleges that Intel brokethe country's anti-trus t laws by offering discountss to Japanese computer manufacturers on the condition that they limit theitr business with rival chip makers.
Sunnyvale-basesd AMD also alleges that Intel forces computefr makers into exclusively using Intel chipes in return for cash Inthe lawsuit, AMD asks for a jury triall and unspecified monetary damages to be determined at In addition, AMD asks for the court to issue an injunctiojn against certain practices by Intel. Intel processors run about 80 percenft ofthe world's computers. A spokesman from Santza Clara-based Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) told the New York Timews today that the companh was still reviewing the lawsuit and woulds have noimmediate comment. "Intel maintains illegal monopoly profits at the expense of consumerw andcomputer manufacturers, whose margins are razorr thin.
Now is the time for consumers and the industru worldwide to break free from the abusivdIntel monopoly," said Thomas McCoy, AMD executive vice legal affairs and chief administrative in a statement. The suit goes on to say that high-levepl executives of major such asand , were threatened if they used AMD's Athlonn 64 server chip. The suit said Michael who was CEO of Compaq atthe time, said in 2000 that becausew of the volume of businesse given to AMD, Intel withheld delivery of critical serverf chips. Saying "he had a gun to his Capellas told AMD he had to stop buyin gAMD chips.
The suit adds that Acer chairman Stan Shih was threatenedwith "severe consequences" for supporting the AMD Athlon 64 launch. Acer withdrewa from the AMD product launch inSeptembee 2003. The two chip companie have been duking it out ever since the when AMD won the right to make x86 chipws of itsown design. The lawsuit follows a March rulingb by the Fair Trade Commission of Japan ruling that Intep had violatedthe country's anti-trust laws. The Europeann commission is also pursuing an investigation againstg Intel for similar possibleantitrust Recently, Apple said that it woulf switch from using IBM microprocessors to Intel's beginning in 2006.
Intel x86 microprocessors run the Solaris and Linuxoperating systems.
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