FTC Opens Format Antitrust Probe of Intel

A global legal battle between the two largest makers of computer processors took an abrupt turn when the Federal Trade Commission opened a formal antitrust investigation of the Intel Corporation. For years, Advanced Micro Devices, a smaller rival of Intel, has been scouring the world in search of regulators in Europe, Asia and the United States who would agree to prosecute Intel for what A.M.D. maintains are anticompetitive pricing practices.

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