Accusing Silicon Valley’s Intel (NYSE: INTC) of “bribery and coercion to maintain a stranglehold on the market,” New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed an antitrust lawsuit against the chip-making giant.

How serious were the threats? Cuomo’s lawsuit says that a February 2004 Dell internal e-mail charged that Intel executives, then CEO and Chairman Craig Barrett, and current CEO Paul Ottelini (inset, left to right) “are prepared for jihad if Dell joins the AMD exodus.”

Cuomo alleges that computer makers like Dell,  IBM (NYSE: IBM), and HP (NYSE: HPQ),

You can read Cuomo’s antitrust lawsuit against Intel here:

 

  • Attorney General Cuomo Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Intel Corporation, the World’s Largest Maker of Microprocessors, N.Y. Attorney General (Nov. 4, 2009)
  • Andrew Cuomo, New York Attorney General
  • Intel Corp.’s In-House Counsel
  • Dell’s In-House Counsel
  • AMD’s In-House Counsel
  • Antitrust Resources for Corporate Counsel, FindLaw

Photo credits: Intel

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