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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
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- November 5, 2009
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Intel faces antitrust suit from New York
New York's attorney general hit Intel Corp. with an antitrust lawsuit Wednesday, saying the company used "illegal threats and collusion" to dominate the market for computer microprocessors.
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said the world's biggest computer chip maker paid billions of dollars in kickbacks to computer manufacturers and retaliated against those that did too much business with competitors.
An Intel spokesman, Chuck Mulloy, denied the charges and said the company's sales practices were legitimate. Intel has described the rebates as simple volume discounts, but some regulators have disagreed. The ...