Major PC retailers such as Best Buy, Circuit City, and Office Depot have been forced to stock only Intel-based systems or offer only limited AMD-based systems, as Intel has threatened to reduce or eliminate market-development funds paid to the retailers, the suit claims.
Proving the illegality of many of those practices could be difficult, Brookwood says.
"Intel historically has been a company that has spent a lot of money to understand precisely where the line between legal and illegal competitive behavior is drawn," Brookwood says. "I'm sure Intel will come up with a compelling argument about why everything AMD claims either never happened, didn't happen the way AMD is reporting it, or even if it did happen, it was just good business practices."
"We haven't seen the lawsuit, so we can't provide specific comment," a spokesman for Intel said Tuesday. "But we believe our sales practices are both fair and consistent with all antitrust laws."
AMD filed the suit when it did in part because of a recent ruling from the Fair Trade Commission of Japan, which found that Intel violated the anti-monopoly act in Japan, and the European Commission is investigating Intel for similar possible antitrust violations, Ruiz said.
Subsea cable alternatives can provide a level of comfort for those concerned about disruptions. Realistically, they will continue to play a small, but critical role in the short term.
Maintaining existing network infrastructures often incurs huge technical debt before newer technologies are adopted over time.
Amid ongoing regional uncertainties, telecom infrastructure in the Middle East has expand to include terrestrial low-latency network infrastructure, which offers resilience and agility in navigating political complexities without relying solely on undersea networks.
