Added Thomas McCoy, AMD's executive vice president: "You don't have to take our word for it when it comes to Intel's abuses; the Japanese government condemned Intel for its exclusionary and illegal misconduct."
McCoy urged regulators "to take a close look at the market failure and consumer harm Intel's business practices are causing in their nations."
The litigation follows a recent ruling from the Fair Trade Commission of Japan that found Intel had abused its monopoly on x86 devices to exclude fair and open competition, and that it had been deliberately engaged in illegal business practices to stop AMD increasing market share.
AMD said Intel had about 80 percent of worldwide x86 microprocessor sales by unit volume and 90 percent by revenue, giving it entrenched monopoly ownership and excessive market power.
The suit makes numerous and cutting allegations. For instance, it claims Intel forced major customers such as Dell, Sony, Toshiba, Gateway and Hitachi into exclusive deals in return for cash payments, discriminatory pricing or marketing subsidies conditioned on the exclusion of AMD.
It alleges that Intel forced other major customers such as NEC, Acer and Fujitsu into partial exclusivity agreements by conditioning rebates, allowances and market development funds for agreeing to "severely limit or forego entirely purchases from AMD".
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