27
September
2006
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00:55 AM
America/Los_Angeles

AMD loses big chunk of case against Intel


AMD just lost a big chunk of their suit against Intel. AMD had charged that Intel strong-armed computer makers into buying Intel chips, but Intel responded that many of the charges were in fact international antitrust claims not domestic ones.

Intel had responded that many of AMD's charges were for lost sales of German-made, Asian-assembled microprocessors to foreign customers. It called such damages "a foreign antitrust injury (if it is one at all) for which the U.S. courts cannot provide relief," Reuters related.

Late yesterday, federal judge Joseph J. Farnan Jr. agreed.

"AMD has not demonstrated that the alleged foreign conduct of Intel has direct, substantial and foreseeable effects in the United States which gives rise to its claim," Farnan wrote in an 18-page opinion.

At best, he said AMD's allegations described activity that might have had "ripple effects" in the United States, but not enough to give rise to an antitrust claim.