Intel sued by the U.S. Justice for unfair competition

On the other side of the Atlantic, the world leader in microprocessors has recently become the subject of yet another legal process to its business practices regarded as unfair.

The Attorney General of the State of New York, Andrew Cuomo, said on Wednesday it had opened legal proceedings involving the California group Intel.

He said the world number one processor would not have played the competition in recent years, using unfair business practices. It evokes the payment of large bribes and kickbacks to various pressures very senior level to ensure that PC makers emphasize its processors.

The prosecutor did not refer to employees who have stupidly skidded face some greenbacks, but officials at Intel and the manufacturers, and intends to see the heads fall.

For its part, Intel denies these accusations, speaking of a procedure that will not benefit consumers or justice (but for injured competitors perhaps?). As manufacturers singled out, namely Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM, they did not wish to speak on the subject.